The Paris Novel Charles Portis My fantasies will remain just

My fantasies will remain just that--fantasies

his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved

and Polly is teaching in an orphanage

who she's convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story

and she has to bring her daughter

The Paris Novel Charles Portis My fantasies will remain justStella reached for an oyster, tipped her head, and tossed it back. It was cool and slippery, the flavor so briny it was like diving into the ocean. Oysters, she thought. Where have they been all my life? When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has kept her confined to the strict routines of her