{"product_id":"the-race-for-paris-a-novel-isbn-9780062354648","title":"The Race for Paris: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction, Honorary Mention for 2015\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wednesday Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNormandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the \u003cem\u003eNashville Banner,\u003c\/em\u003e and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have endured enormous danger and frustrating obstacles—including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can. Even so, Liv wants more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncouraged by her husband, the editor of a New York newspaper, she’s determined to be the first photographer to reach Paris with the Allies, and capture its freedom from the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, her Commanding Officer has other ideas about the role of women in the press corps. To fulfill her ambitions, Liv must go AWOL. She persuades Jane to join her, and the two women find a guardian angel in Fletcher, a British military photographer who reluctantly agrees to escort them. As they race for Paris across the perilous French countryside, Liv, Jane, and Fletcher forge an indelible emotional bond that will transform them and reverberate long after the war is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on daring, real-life female reporters on the front lines of history like Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Miller, and Martha Gellhorn—and with cameos by other famous faces of the time—\u003cem\u003eThe Race for Paris\u003c\/em\u003e is an absorbing, atmospheric saga full of drama, adventure, and passion. Combining riveting storytelling with expert literary craftsmanship and thorough research, Meg Waite Clayton crafts a compelling, resonant read.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction, Honorary Mention for 2015\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the extraordinary female journalists who were among the first to report the Allied liberation of Paris from the Nazis in 1944, \u003cem\u003eThe Race for Paris\u003c\/em\u003e follows two war correspondents on their quest to document (and make) history. Jane is a young, single reporter who meets photographer Olivia, “Liv,” on assignment at a field hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike their male colleagues, Liv and Jane are constantly confronted by red tape and derision. Jane is resigned to making the most of her assignment, but Liv is determined to chase a bigger story. After failing to win over her commanding officer, she goes AWOL to Paris—and Jane, seizing the chance to make a name for herself, joins her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReluctantly accompanied by a male British military reporter, the two women scramble through the gunfire and carnage scarring the French countryside. Their journey is further complicated by emotional bonds, romantic tensions, and one woman’s secret—a secret with the power to end her career and, perhaps, her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Thrilling…a dangerous, fast-moving adventure. Well-researched, the novel puts the women in the path of bombs, gunfire, gender bias and arcane military restrictions; Clayton models her characters on real-life pioneers—Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller and other women who broke barriers to get the story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Jose Mercury News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don’t wait to read \u003cem\u003eThe Race for Paris\u003c\/em\u003e. It’s a fine book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An amazing story of friendship and courage…. Meg Waite Clayton paints such a poignant picture of these three individuals that I found myself holding my breath.…You’ll be left exhausted…at the end, but it will be so worth it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookreporter.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clayton’s gripping tale was inspired by the women writers and photographers who broke through bureaucratic and gender barriers to report from the front lines.... There’s danger, secrets, and romance in the story, along with the underlying deep need of Jane, Liv, and Fletcher, to portray the truth about the war.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical Novel Reviews, Editors’ Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don’t wait to read.... It’s a fine book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clayton’s multilayered, fast-paced novel is as dramatic as any newspaper account. There are wonderful historical details and plenty of danger and action with enough romance to satisfy adventure readers as well as WWII romance aficionados.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As Patton and Montgomery plodded and then steamrolled across France in the days and weeks following D-Day, the press tracked the “race to Paris”. . . [but] which journalist would be the first to document the liberation of the City of Light? Clayton focuses her involving and thoroughly researched historical novel on the female reporters and photographers . . . despite the army’s attempt to keep women away from the front lines.... Entertaining and enlightening reading. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Involving and thoroughly researched.... Clayton tells a story that will draw women’s-fiction readers as well as historical-fiction and WWII devotees.... Entertaining and enlightening reading.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A smart, engrossing, and ultimately heartbreaking story…Clayton gives us a story of friendship, love, and sacrifice that no one who has the pleasure of reading it will soon forget. I loved this book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and At the Water’s Edge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A smart, engrossing, and ultimately heartbreaking story of two women journalists and the British military photographer who travels with them from Normandy to Paris in the summer of 1944. In its exploration of the barriers women journalists faced in covering the war, \u003cem\u003eThe Race for Paris\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a clear and fresh perspective on World War II. In the trueness of her characters and the exquisitely drawn, sometimes funny and often haunting scenes, Clayton gives us a story of friendship, love, and sacrifice that no one who has the pleasure of reading it will soon forget. I loved this book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and At the Water’s Edge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clayton introduces us to a world we never knew existed and then makes it utterly compelling.  I loved the story of these brave women, the risks they took, the ambitions that fed them. Moving and gripping, it is a thriller of women and war.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Morris, award-winning author of The Jazz Palace and The River Queen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clayton’s narrative is sophisticated and well structured…. Her description of the liberation of Paris is riveting. She skillfully reveals the inadequacies of one photo or one article to capture the full magnitude of such an event. And her prose stirs the imagination.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Antonio Express–News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ambitious, riveting…. Deftly weaving fact and fiction, Clayton captures the texture and cadence of daily life in a world that is anything but ordinary.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clayton’s most ambitious undertaking to date may be fiction, but it’s impeccably researched, offering a striking glimpse into what life was like for the predecessors of some of today’s most famous female journalists. A must for World War II buffs and fans of sharp, boundary-busting female characters.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This marvelous novel has everything-adventure, romance, history, and most of all heart.  Every reader who enters this ‘Race’ will come out a winner.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnn Packer, Bestselling Author of  Swim Back to Me  and  The Children's Crusade (forthcoming)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888258838757,"sku":"NP9780062354648","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062354648.jpg?v=1730228649","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-race-for-paris-a-novel-isbn-9780062354648","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}