About this title: Novelist Edmund White writes about the Paris that's not seen from the tour bus. A resident of Paris for 16 years, he aims to give the reader the insights of the "flâneur"--a stroller, or, according to the French, "an artist of impressions." His constitutionals take him from one end of the city to the other, anecdote by literary anecdote, bringing ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780747549574ISBN:0747549575
Description: Very Good. DJ shows slight wear. Light soiling on DJ and sides of book. Slight creasing or wear on corner of several pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Spine is slanted. read more
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Description: Reader copy. Ex-Public Library. Spine is cocked. Page edges show wear. Covers show some wear. Usual library stickers and stamps. Save a tree-buy used.. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2001-03-21
ISBN-13:9781582341354ISBN:1582341354
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN-13:9781582342122ISBN:1582342121
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781582341354ISBN:1582341354
Description: Good + in Good jacket. DJ has chipping, marks-Cover has bumping, light edgewear-Marks on edge-Slight spine slant-Copper coloured flags interspersed through out book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780747549574ISBN:0747549575
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Date Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN-13:9781582342122ISBN:1582342121
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781582342122. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780747596875ISBN:0747596875
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 224 pages. The kind of tour guide you really want-a unique and ecclectic view of paris through the eyes of a fierce and witty intellect. (Paperback) read more
"For anyone who is interested in that masterpiece of cities, Paris, I highly recommend this little book. It is highly selective, deliberately highlighting places that do not typically appear in guidebooks. The majority of the book deals with several disparate groups of people who have found refuge in the City of Lights: (1) Afro-Americans; (2) Jews; (3) gays; and (4) royalists and/or monarchists. There is also a chapter dedicated to the Musée Gustave Moreau on the Right Bank and the Hôtel de Lauzun on the Île Saint-Louis.
What I found curiously missing was any detail, beyond a few general mentions, of the rapidly growing number of Islamic immigrants and their descendants.
I had read the author's short biography of Marcel Proust and liked it a great deal; so I was surprised to see this book, which I immediately snapped up. If you are interested in the Paris that lurks beyond Baedeker, you could do no worse than read The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris."
"Aptly titled, Edmund White's essay meanders. If you'd like to get to know Paris, this isn't the book I'd recommend. But if you enjoy reminiscing about Paris, it's a small gem."
"This is the book I take whenever I revisit the City of Slights--even after years and years of visiting and taking in the sights, the city never fails to fail me. I can't get enough of the place! And this book is a great reminder of why I love the place so dern much."
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