The characterizations left me uncertain of where fiction ceases and assimilation of the characters succeeds. Like a realistic dream, I feel the characters may be part of my own experience.
The writing is too bad. she fails to bring alive the characters and they appear silly and often annoying.
"That Summer in Paris" turned out to be not as hot as I remember; but then again that was my summer in Paris. The novel's premise, coupled with my passion for reading and writing, interested me enough to start the book.
The characterizations left me uncertain of where fiction ceases and assimilation of the characters succeeds. Like a realistic dream, I feel the characters may be part of my own experience.
THAT SUMMER IN PARIS is a literary gift on so many levels I barely know where to begin. It treats the nature of art, the soul of the writer, the joys of platonic sex and sexual sense, the eroticism of food, the despair and the ecstacy of old age, the confusions of youth--in short, life itself--in such intimate and touching ways this reader felt changed in a way he's rarely felt from a novel.
