Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera - Couverture rigide

Miles, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1838953418 ISBN 13 : 9781838953416

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2023

Synopsis

Once Upon a Time World, 9781838953416

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À propos de l'auteur

After a nomadic childhood in America, Canada and the UK, Jonathan Miles has been travelling ever since and currently lives in Paris. Having taken a first from University College, London, he received his doctorate from Jesus College, Oxford. Early books include studies of British artists Eric Gill and David Jones. Most recently, Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal and the Masterpiece, Nine Lives of Otto Katz and St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire were all published to international acclaim.

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'Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week'
'[A] fabulous romp of a book'***** Mail on Sunday
A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'

In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the intervening years, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size.

A mere handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably English, Russian and American - attracted the talented, rich and famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for everybody who was anybody. Often frivolous, it was also a potent cultural matrix that inspired the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Coco Chanel, Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, James Baldwin, Catherine Mansfield, the Rolling Stones, Sartre and Stravinsky.

In Once Upon a Time World, Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of French coast that lured the world to its shores. It is a wild and unforgettable tale that follows the Riviera's transformation from paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperilled concrete jungle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1838953418
• ISBN 13: 9781838953416
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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