| Edition |
First Vintage departures edition. |
| Description |
xx, 267 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Vintage departures
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| Note |
"A Vintage departures original"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267). |
| Contents |
Liberation of Paris / E.B. White -- from A backward glance / Edith Wharton -- April in Paris / Art Buchwald -- Passable / A.J. Liebling -- Passionate and penniless in Paris / Maxine Rose Schur -- Paris in winter / Irwin Shaw -- My Paris / Saul Bellow -- Hunger was good discipline / Ernest Hemingway -- Boulevard des Italiens / Patric Kuh -- The measure of my powers / M.F.K. Fisher -- Paris's haute chocolaterie / Naomi Barry -- A day in the life of a Parisian café / Grant Rosenberg -- The city of light in the dark / David Sedaris -- from Shakespeare and company / Sylvia Beach -- from The early diary of Anaïs Nin / Anaïs Nin -- The glass of fashion / Stanley Karnow -- Paying the way / Deborah Baldwin -- from The autobiography / Thomas Jefferson -- from Paris France / Gertrude Stein -- Montmartre ; Le grand duc / Langston Hughes -- Euro Disney : a postcard / Jennifer Allen -- from The papers of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin -- from The autobiography / John Adams -- from The innocents abroad / Mark Twain -- Parlez-vous Français? ; An aesthetically challenged American in Paris (part II) / Dave Barry -- Letters / T.S. Eliot -- Tourist / Janet Flanner -- Cole Porter ... and Josephine Baker / Bricktop (cowritten with James Haskins) -- from No name in the street / James Baldwin. |
| Subject |
Americans -- France -- Paris -- History.
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Paris (France) -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Lee, Jennifer, 1971-
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| ISBN |
1400031028 trade paper |
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