French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice Kaplan

French Lessons: A Memoir

Alice Kaplan

221 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
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Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...

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Moods

reflective 87%
informative 75%
challenging 37%
inspiring 37%
adventurous 12%
emotional 12%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 33%

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