Synopses & Reviews
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 youve always wanted, only to wonder where true happiness lies.
Review
"Impressive . . . Hypnotic . . . Hard to put the book down . . . Sneed is such a gifted writer." —Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times Book Review (cover), on Little Known Facts
"I grabbed . . . Little Known Facts on my way out the door this weekend and ate it up. It's a great, canny read: wry, observant, inventive in style, rich in character. Christine Sneed knows her Hollywood, but more than that, she knows her people." —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, on Little Known Facts
"An entertaining, formally inventive read . . . the world that Sneed creates in Little Known Facts—a blend of truth and fiction that weaves real life actors and directors into Renn's everyday life—makes for a clever take and a fun read." —Los Angeles Times on Little Known Facts
"What distinguishes Little Known Facts is the universality. Sneed possesses uncanny insight into the power dynamics in families, friendships and workplaces. Exquisitely structured, with its spotlight segueing among characters, bits of tabloids, journal entries and overheard conversations, Little Known Facts is one of those rare novels that is both profound and fun." —Chicago Tribune on Little Known Facts
Synopsis
Set in Paris, from the award-winning author of Little Known Facts, an effervescent new novel about a woman in thrall to a powerful older man.
Synopsis
An effervescent novel about romance and art—and Paris—from the award-winning author of Little Known Facts.
About the Author
Christine Sneeds story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry won the Grace Paley Prize, Ploughshares John C. Zacharis Prize, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her debut novel Little Known Facts won the Society of Midland Authors award for best adult fiction and was named a top ten debut novel of 2013 by Booklist. Sneed teaches at Northwestern University and DePaul University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.