Paris, He Said, Christine Sneed
Paris, He Said, Christine Sneed
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Paris, He Said

Author: Christine Sneed

Narrator: Elise Arsenault, Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/22/2015


Synopsis

Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she will become if she meets her artistic potential.

Laurent, however, seems to have other women in his life and Jayne, too, has an ex-boyfriend, much closer to her own age, whom she still has feelings for. Bringing Paris gloriously to life, Paris, He Said is a novel about desire, beauty, and its appreciation, and of finding yourself presented with the things you believe you've always wanted, only to wonder where true happiness lies.

About Christine Sneed

Christine Sneed, winner of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, is the author of the novel Little Known Facts and the story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, a 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize winner, a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Award (first-fiction category), winner of the 2011 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares, and winner of the Chicago Writers Association 2011 Book of the Year (in the traditionally published fiction category). The San Francisco Chronicle also chose Portraits as one of the fifty best fiction books of 2011. Christine teaches for the MFA program at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and the graduate writing program at Northwestern University. She lives in Illinois.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lila on July 04, 2015

I'm trying to figure out what just happended. I got to the last page of the book and felt as if I were pushed off a cliff. What happened? What did I miss? This is my first book by this author and choose it because of my madness and desire for all things Paris. Throughout the story I felt as though I......more

Goodreads review by Lolly K Dandeneau on February 22, 2015

A heart's coming of age, and what I mean by that is the novel has Jayne learning all of love's dimensions while struggling with what she wants. The appeal of a worldly European man offering to give her the chance to blossom in Paris seems to be a no brainer- particularly for an artist. Laurent is th......more

Goodreads review by Esil on February 26, 2015

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an opportunity to read an advance copy of Paris, He Said. I feel perplexed by this book. Jayne is a young aimless artist in New York. She meets Laurent, who is her older boss in the gallery he owns in New York. Laurent moves back to Paris, where he owns a......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on May 18, 2015

This is a lush, evocative novel about an artist and the people she loves, the decisions she has to make as she embarks upon the career she always dreamed about, and Paris, which becomes a character in its own right. A romance, drama, and comedy all at once, Paris, He Said features Sneed's typically......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on June 19, 2015

What a disappointment. Here's what happened. I was on vacation (off the grid) and I was thoroughly engrossed in Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall." Then I temporarily lost my Kindle. So, I borrowed my daughter's Kindle for a few hours, but because I was off the grid I couldn't download "Wolf Hall." And the......more