| Edition |
First Simon &Shuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
341 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
It's 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has just graduated from Yale, eager to pursue her dreams as a fledgling painter. When she receives a job offer to work as the assistant to Lydia Schell, a famous American photographer in Paris, she immediately accepts. It's a chance not only to be at the center of it all, but also to return to France for the first time since she was a lonely nine-year-old girl, sent to the outskirts of Paris to live with cousins while her father was dying. Kate may speak fluent French, but she arrives at the Schell household in the fashionable Sixth Arrondissement both dazzled and wildly impressionable. She finds herself surrounded by a seductive cast of characters, including the bright, pretentious Schells, with whom she boards, and their assortment of famous friends; Kate's own flamboyant cousin; a fellow Yalie who seems to have it all figured out; and a bande of independently wealthy young men with royal lineage. As Kate rediscovers Paris and her roots there, while trying to fit into Lydia's glamorous and complicated family, she begins to question the kindness of the people to whom she is so drawn as well as her own motives for wanting them to love her. |
| Subject |
Americans -- France -- Paris -- Fiction.
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Women college graduates -- Employment -- Fiction.
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Women photographers -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781451655032 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1451655037 hardcover alkaline paper |
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