French Lessons: French Lessons: A Novel, (Paperback)

from voracious

"French Lessons" is a novel of three French tutors who take individual students for private lessons through a French language academy where they work. Each chapter is a separate but related story about one of the tutors and their private lesson student. I thought the stories were interesting, as ...

from BeckyJG

Over the course of one beautiful Parisian day three Americans will each spend the day with a private French tutor. Each is trying to get away from something--an event, an intolerable situation, a rut--and each is trying to make their way to something better. Josie, a high school French teacher, i...

from CyndiTefft

I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway (my first) in ARC format. The bio about the author says that she's a Stanford professor in creative writing, which made sense after I finished the book.Sussman has a beautiful way of painting a character portrait with a few brush strokes, powerful imag...

from elbakerone

On occasion I read books with very little preconceived notions about them - an unfamiliar author, a title I've never noticed - usually because a cover or a blurb draws me to them. Such was my experience with French Lessons by Ellen Sussman. And really, who doesn't want a literary escape to Paris ...

from squirrelsohno

I was lucky to receive an ARC of FRENCH LESSONS from a Goodreads contest, and being the sucker that I am for chick lit and France, I was eager to read it. I finally found myself picking it up and jumping in, and the first thing I noticed was the writing style - third person, present tense, and a ...