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Birds of America

by Mary McCarthy

Nineteen-year-old American student Peter Levi moves to Paris in 1964 to study at the Sorbonne. Amidst the growing social and political upheaval of the decade, he navigates the difficult transition from childhood innocence to the complexities of adulthood.

Accession 20779 ISBN 0140034374 Publisher Penguin
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