Published posthumously in 1964, "A Moveable Feast" remains one of Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.
Combining the rich historical detail of Philippa Gregorys novels with the sophisticated glamor of Sophie Kinsellas "Shopaholic" books, Daviss book is romantic historical fiction at its finest.
No Telling, Adam Thorpe's fifth novel, is set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs and narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his First Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply dysfunctional: a dithering mother, a hard-drinking, womanising uncle who becomes his stepfather, and an older sister, Carole - ...
More than 50 years after arriving in Paris, Maggi Nolan, former society columnist for the legendary Herald Tribune, has written a moving account of life in Parts in the '50s. She left America in 1946, and soon took on a new existence at the heart of high-end bohemia, rubbing elbows with the rich, the famous, and the wonderfully original at Maxim's ...
This book is a personal depiction of France in the 1960's. As a unique social and historical document, it constitutes an original contribution to the field of comparative cultural studies. The sixties were a particularly significant decade for French intellectual life and social history, redefining cultural values and ushering radical ...
"The Heroic City" is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris' public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris' public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and '50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city's streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and ...
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