Research Catalog
Perestroika in Paris
- Title
- Perestroika in Paris / Jane Smiley.
- Author
- Smiley, Jane
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-599 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 265 pages : illlustration, map; 21 cm
- Summary
- "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. She's dazzled, and often mystified, by the sights, sounds and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthair pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the bakery and the butchershop. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks, and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the secluded, ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great grandmother live, quietly and unto themselves. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom among humans and animals alike. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris? And how long can a boy keep her hidden, and all his own? Jane Smiley's beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity and ingenuity, and expresses the desire of all creatures for true friendship, love, and freedom"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Christmas fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-599
- ISBN
- 9780525520351
- 052552035X
- 9780525520368 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019058473
- 40030248101
- OCLC
- 1133662550
- Author
- Smiley, Jane, author.
- Title
- Perestroika in Paris / Jane Smiley.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Smiley, Jane, 1949- Paras in Paris. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020 9780525520368 (DLC) 2019058474
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030248101
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-599