A Year in the Merde - Couverture souple

Clarke, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1582346178 ISBN 13 : 9781582346175

Editeur : Bloomsbury USA, 2006

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job - and finds out what the French are really like.
 
They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after pétanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories.
In his first novel, Stephen Clarke gives a laugh-out-loud account of the pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France. Less quaint than A Year in Provence, less chocolatey than Chocolat, A Year in the Merde will tell you how to get served by the grumpiest Parisian waiter; how to make perfect vinaigrette every time; how to make amour - not war; and how not to buy a house in the French countryside.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Before A Year in the Merde, Paul had never written anything longer than a report on British coffee-drinking habits.
Inspired partly by the culture shock on his arrival in Paris in September 2002, and partly by the enviable sales figures of Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence, Paul started keeping a diary of his experiences chez the French. He decided to turn the journal into a novel when Anglo-French relations were at their worst during the Iraq War of spring 2003.
Paul is currently living in Paris with his French girlfriend and her extensive lingerie collection.

The author would like to thank the French government for introducing the 35-hour week and giving him time to do more interesting things on a Friday afternoon than work. Merci.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury USA
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1582346178
• ISBN 13: 9781582346175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304