Paris was ours [electronic resource] : thirty-two writers reflect on the city of light / edited by Penelope Rowlands.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616200367 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1616200367 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 276 p.) : ill.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : L'Arriv�ee -- L'Argent is no object / V�eronique Vienne -- Learning French ways / Diane Johnson -- Becoming a Parisian / Walter Wells -- Love without reason / Caroline Weber -- Keep your distance / Samuel Shimon -- Friends of my youth / Joe Queenan -- Fledgling days / Valerie Steiker -- The tapeworm is in / David Sedaris -- My bookstore high / Jeremy Mercer -- Chantal's gift / Mark Gaito -- My day with Mr. D. / Alice Kaplan -- Parenting, French-style / Janine de Giovanni -- Deal with it / Patric Kuh -- Two Paris poems / C.K. Williams -- Understanding chic / Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni -- It's my home, that's all / Julie Lacoste -- Just another American / Janet McDonald -- Toward a politics of quality of life / Judith Warner -- Out of the revolution / Roxane Farmanfarmaian -- My literary Paris / Lily Tuck -- The tribulations of a Cuban girl in Paris / Zo�e Vald�es -- Montparnasse and beyond / Richard Armstrong -- Guillaume �a Paris / Judith Thurman -- Ma vie boh�eme -- Karen Schur -- A mild hell / Edmund White -- The sky is metallic / Alicia Drake -- In Franklin's footsteps / Stacy Schiff -- Litost / Brigid Dorsey -- La bourdonneuse / Noelle Oxenhandler -- Paris is gone, all gone / Marcelle Clements -- Enfin / David Lebovitz -- Le d�epart / Penelope Rowlands. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Paris (France) > Description and travel. Paris (France) > Social life and customs. Visitors, Foreign > France > Paris > Biography. City and town life > France > Paris. |
Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. |