About this title: The latest episode in Clarkes almost-true account of his adventures as an expatriate in France is just as delightful as the original--and already a bestseller in the U.K.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781596911901ISBN:1596911905
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Description: Good. 2006-Hardcover---Dust jacket shows some shelf-wear. -Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781596911901ISBN:1596911905
Description: New. First US Edition 2006. Slight shelf wear. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781596911918ISBN:1596911913
Description: Fine. Slight shelf wear with slight scuffing to cover, corners and edges. Faint corner wear. NICE CLEAN PAGES. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 7/10/2007
ISBN-13:9781596911918ISBN:1596911913
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2007-07-10
ISBN-13:9781596911918ISBN:1596911913
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781596911901ISBN:1596911905
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Beautiful condition. Expected rubbing along edges. Square, tight. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 403 p. Audience: General/trade. Hawkins Mill books guarantees prompt and safe transactions. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Date Published: 2007-07-10
ISBN-13:9781596911918ISBN:1596911913
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781596911918ISBN:1596911913
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Edition: First edition. FIRST U.S. Edition/FIRST PRINTING.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781596911901ISBN:1596911905
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 403 p. Audience: General/trade. Mint condition first edition in mint jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9781596911901ISBN:1596911905
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Bloomsbury USA, 2006. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"In this second book of a series, we meet Englishman, Paul West, moderately successful advertising executive, who went to France for a job as the liaison for a Paris based, French company trying to break into the English market. He spends a year dodging French office politics, trying to improve English-French relationships with the Parisian femmes, incurring the wrath and hostility of haughty french waiters, and slip, sliding his way through the local dog merde, which is freely deposited on the Paris sidewalks. At the start of this book, Paul is bringing to fruition, his dream of the first English Tea Room Cafe in Paris. This, of course, is interrupted with the nightmare of dealing with pompous French officials, the reality of trying to hire help who will not be inattentive, inept or outright rude, and all this while trying to wend his way through the arms of various mademoiselle's, looking for his one true love. This is a lighthearted romp through France, with a quick jump across the Channel to London, which will leave you laughing at a transplanted Englishman's travels in La Belle France."
"Paul West returns, still living in France, his French much improved, but still not good enough to tell tea bags from bath salts, flat tires from pure exhaustion, and without the knowledge to properly translate his menu items to get the French government off his back.
Paul is even less lucky in love. His girlfriend Florence who is supposed to be helping him set up his tea shop in Paris, is quickly tiring of the project and takes offence when Paul states he is uncomfortable with the fact that she hired her ex to be the main architect on the project. To make matters worse, his own ex Alexa shows up out of nowhere with a photo exhibit at the Pompidou that features, who else, Paul himself.
Now faced with more personal matters then what readers saw in the first book, Paul needs to figure out not only where his head is in the merde, but if his heart is in it as well.
I was exceptionally excited to start this book. I was in love with "A Year in the Merde" and was excited to continue the series (after living in France myself I can truly appreciate some of the bizarre situations Paul gets himself into). "In the Merde for Love" was cute. It lacked some of the burst out laughing moments that made "A Year" so intoxicating, but it definitely had its moments.
Overall this was a pretty entertaining book, if not as fast paced as the first, and hopefully Clarke will come out with a third for me to read as well."
"Laugh out loud lines in parts, though reasonably mindless in the majority - a sort of boy-lit adventure into relationships. Very similar to the first "A Year in the Merde" though not quite as sharp."
"Not quite as funny as the first book, but still an entertaining look at life in France for an ex-pat Englishman. Paul is simultaneously attempting to win back an old girlfriend, open an English tea room in Paris, and decipher the mysteries of French life, with hilarious misunderstandings along the way."
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