Our Paris: Sketches from Memory - Couverture rigide

White, Edmund

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679441662 ISBN 13 : 9780679441663

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Book by White Edmund

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

What happens when one of our most celebrated writers combines talents with a French artist and architect to capture life in their Parisian neighborhood? The result is a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of the heart of Paris -- including the Marais, Les Halles, the two islands in the Seine, and the Châtelet -- and the people who call it home. It is an enchantingly varied world, populated not only by dazzling literati and ultrachic couturiers and art dealers but also by poetic shopkeepers, grandmotherly prostitutes, and, ever underfoot, an irrepressible basset hound named Fred. The foibles and eccentricities of these sometimes outrageous, always memorable individuals are brought to life with unfailing wit and affection.

Below the surface of the sparkling humor in Our Paris, there is a tragic undercurrent. While Hubert Sorin was completing this work, he was nearing the end of his struggle with AIDS. The book is a tribute to the loving spirit with which the authors banished somberness and celebrated the pleasures of their life together.

Biographie de l'auteur

Edmund White is the author of the novels Fanny: A Fiction, A Boy's Own Story, The Farewell Symphony, and The Married Man; a biography of Jean Genet; a study of Marcel Proust; and, most recently, a memoir, My Lives. Having lived in Paris for many years, he has now settled in New York, and he teaches at Princeton University.

Hubert Sorin was an architect and illustrator. After teaching architecture for two years in Ethiopia, he returned to Paris to work for Jean-Jacques Ory, who directed at that time the largest architectural office in France. After retiring at the end of 1989, Sorin became an illustrator, contributing drawings and text for a privately printed book, Mémoires dessinées. He died in March 1994 and is buried in Paris at Père-Lachaise.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679441662
• ISBN 13: 9780679441663
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Sorin Hubert
• Nombre de pages: 121
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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