Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

Â â‚¬Å“Beautifully written and refreshingly originalâ‚¬Â¦ makes us see [Paris] in a different light.â‚¬Â -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
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Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-ElysÂ©es to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of PÂ¨re-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic Å½le Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.
Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris, and writing about the city he loves. Â An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places and daily life, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the worldâ‚¬s favorite city.Â

Photographs by Alison Harris.
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â‚¬Å“I loved his collection of essays and anyone whoâ‚¬s visited Paris in the past, or plans to visit in the future, will be equally charmed as well.â‚¬Â â‚¬"David Lebovitz, author of The Sweet Life in Paris
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â‚¬Å“[A] quirky, personal, independent view of the city, its history and its peopleâ‚¬Ââ‚¬"Mavis Gallant
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â‚¬Å“Gives fresh poetic insight into the cityâ‚¬Â¦ a voyage into â‚¬Ëœthe bends and recesses, the jagged edges, the secret interiorsâ‚¬ [of Paris].â‚¬Ââ‚¬" Departures
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-04-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307886088

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2011-04-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307886088

Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

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