- Title:
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The Strays of Paris
- Written by:
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Jane Smiley
- Read by:
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Suzanne Toren
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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8 hours 21 minutes
- Published:
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May 01 2021
- Available Date:
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May 01 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867531913
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Pulitzer Prize-winner author
From Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of a group of extraordinary animals – and one little boy – whose lives cross paths in Paris.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of three extraordinary animals – and one little boy – whose lives cross paths in Paris.
Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one afternoon when she pushes open the gate of her stall and, travelling through the night, arrives quite by chance in the dazzling streets of Paris.
She soon meets a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated crow, and life amongst the animals in the city’s lush green spaces is enjoyable for a time. But everything changes when Paras meets a human boy, Étienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the secluded, ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly 100-year-old great-grandmother live quietly and keep to themselves. As the cold weather of Christmas nears, the unlikeliest of friendships blooms between human and animals.
Charming and beguiling in equal measure, Jane Smiley’s audiobook celebrates the intrinsic need for friendship, love and freedom - whoever you may be.
'A marvellous novelist.'
Guardian
'Smiley makes the most ordinary moments extraordinary with her dazzling prose.'
Good Housekeeping
'Always made sure the reader is having a good time.'
The Times
'Jane Smiley is a master of expansive, effortlessly readable sagas.'
Daily Mail
'In her sensuous responsiveness to the facts of the world, Smiley has started to look like the best living American novelist.'
The Observer
'A master storyteller.'
LA Times
'One of her generation’s most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love.'
New York Times