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LESSONS IN FRENCH
Lessons in French tells the story of Katie, a college graduate who spends a year as an assistant for Lydia Schell, a famous American photographer in Paris.
Once in Paris, Katie finds herself surrounded by a wild cast of characters, including the bright, pretentious Schells, Katie's cousin, Etienne, her fellow Yalie, Christine, and a bande of independently wealthy young men with royal lineage. Immediately on arriving, Katie falls in love with Olivier, a Franco-American mamma's boy who is forever in search of reclaiming his family's lost grandeur. He is also the boyfriend of Portia, Lydia's daughter. Secretly dating Olivier is the first of Katie's many ethically suspect decisions as she works for Lydia.
A real incursion into the life of the intelligentsia and the privilege through the lens of a particularly winning if flawed assistant, this novel is a fascinating slice of life in a time and place so rich it brims at the seams. Exquisitely written in an assertive prose, it is also a mighty good read which redefines "unputdownable". Reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas it is a literary indulgence.
Hilary Reyl has a PhD in French Literature from NYU, with a focus on the Nineteenth Century, and has spent several years working and studying in France. She lives in New York City with her husband and twin daughters.
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Published 2013-03-01 by Simon and Schuster |