WELL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS: SEX AND LOVE IN THE CITY OF LIGHT - Couverture souple

Baxter, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0553816004 ISBN 13 : 9780553816006

Editeur : Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 2006

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'All Paris stories are to some extent stories of love - love requited or unrequited, knowing or innocent, spiritual, intellectual, carnal, doomed...'

For more than a century Paris has attracted the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world. Painters, film-makers, actresses, writers, princes, poets flocked to the city to learn, to escape, to seek and to indulge amidst its cafes, night clubs, bookshops, opium dens and brothels. For John Baxter, it was because he had fallen in love with a French woman.

A captivating mix of love, life, art and eroticism, We'll Always Have Paris is a unique personal memoir of Europe's most romantic capital city.

'Towers above most recent memoirs of life abroad...more irresistible than many of
the performers at the Crazy Horse' Sunday Times

'A paean to the gastronomic and otherwise sensual delights of the city mixed with tidbits of salacious historical gossip' Guardian

'Full of cameos of the rich and famous, this is armchair travel at its most irresistible and romantic' Mail on Sunday

'Dirty, untidy, romantic and in equal parts charming and irritating...much like Paris itself' Sunday Telegraph

Présentation de l'éditeur

For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism and politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived because he had fallen in love with a French woman. All of these people arrived because they were re-making their lives.

We'll Always Have Paris is a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world. It is a guided tour of the people and places associated with the Parisian legend. It includes interviews with painters, film-makers, actresses, writers, poets. There are visits to the cafes of Montparnasse where Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Man Ray hung out. It explores the old brothels - temples of sensuality in 18th century Paris - and an erotic bookshop. Above all, it is John Baxter's personal history of Europe's most romantic capital city.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0553816004
• ISBN 13: 9780553816006
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352