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Black Elk in Paris: A Novel
by
Kate Horsley
It's 1888, and Paris is drunk on its own beauty and scientific and artistic accomplishment. The city is poised to host the Universal Exposition, a testimony to French power and colonization, and to unveil its extraordinary centerpiece, the Eiffel Tower.
Philippe Normand is a modest, likable physician who, in his profession, is privy to the foibles and addictions of the ri...more
Philippe Normand is a modest, likable physician who, in his profession, is privy to the foibles and addictions of the ri...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
March 14th 2006
by Trumpeter
(first published 2006)
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This book provides a hedonistic portrait of Paris in the late 1890s, everyone drinking absinthe, and out whoring it up in the bars and cafes of the city. Men were given opium for their ailments and women were considered to be suffering from "hysteria" if they were the least bit non-conformist. Enter into the story an exotic Oglala Sioux named Black Elk, accidently left behind in Paris while touring with a "Wild West" show. It's an interesting clash of cultures, and shows t...more
In 1887, the great Lakota medicine man Black Elk traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He was inadvertently left behind, became homesick, and stayed, for a time, with a woman friend and her family in Paris. Kate Horsley has taken this intriguing bit of history and fashioned it into a delightful and charming novel about the frienship between Black Elk, a somewhat fusty French doctor who is fond of puddings, and a free-spirited young woman called Madou. I loved this book.
Horsley tells the brief tale of an unlikely group of friends in 19th century Paris. This is one of those books where what's NOT said is more intriguing that what is. A good read for anyone (like me) interested in the Victorian Era.
simply loved the narrator, setting, style, and ultimate themes of this story. if i could live in a book, this is one of the top contenders
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Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1952, Kate Horsley Parker, the youngest of five children, loved to read. Her mother, Alice Horsley Parker, inspired that love, which is part of the reason that she chose to write under her mother’s maiden name. In her mother’s world, young women were to be educated and refined and passionate. While in a private girl’s school in Virginia during the sixties, Horsley pr...more
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