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Dreaming In French: The Paris Years Of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, And Angela Davis (2012)

by Alice Kaplan(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0226424383 (ISBN13: 9780226424385)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

University Of Chicago Press

review 1: Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis. Three very bright young women who shaped by time spent studying in Paris. By the end of the 1970's they would be iconic figures in the chaotic storm that is American culture. Not only would Paris shape them as students, later on in adulthood they would return to the city of lights. In all three cases, as very famous women. I really enjoyed this book because I gained insight into what Paris means personally and how it goes with you even after you have returned home.
review 2: This book was much more scholarly than I had anticipated. I was very interested in the Paris aspect; I thought that this book would make me want to go to Paris because of the influence that it had on these three remarkable = yet very dif... moreferent = women. However, the writing is kind of dry. I didn't ever get a visceral sense of the excitement that each woman must have experienced during her year abroad. Yes, it was mentioned and the influences were duly noted and footnoted. But at the end of the day or book, I just felt that it had been a very "dry" rendering of the three experiences. less

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