Breathless: An American Girl in Paris

In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all.
Breathless is the story of a girl who represents those who rebelled against conventional expectations. Paris was a magnet for those eager to resist domesticity, and like many young women of the decade, Nancy K. Miller was enamored of everything Frenchfrom perfume and Hermes scarves to the writing of Simone de Beauvoir and the New Wave films of Jeanne Moreau. After graduating from Barnard College in 1961, Miller set out for a year in Paris, with a plan to take classes at the Sorbonne and live out a great romantic life inspired by the movies.
After a string of sexual misadventures, she gave up her short-lived freedom and married an American expatriate who promised her a lifetime of three-star meals and five-star hotels. But her husband wasn't who he said he was, and she eventually had to leave Paris and her dreams behind.
This stunning memoir chronicles a young woman s coming-of-age tale, and offers a glimpse into the intimate lives of girls before feminism."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: 11/05/2013
ISBN: 9781580054881
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/12/2013
Booklist 11/01/2013 pg. 13
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2013