March 27, 2024
PARIS STORIES
5 Paris Readers Circle members will win a copy
Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries.
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the growing metropolis's teeming humanity;Colette recounts the sensual adventures of a young girl in the decadent Paris of the early twentieth century, while F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in its urban glamour. Jean Rhys's lost heroines wander from café to café
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QUARTET
Quartet, Jean Rhys's first novel, launched her literary career in the late 1920s, and today remains an incisive, sinister tale of love and obsession.
After her husband, Stephan, is arrested, Marya finds herself destitute in Paris. With nowhere else to turn, she accepts the hospitality of an English couple living on the fringes of the artistic world. Yet as Marya is drawn inexorably into their universe, she becomes entangled in a bizarre sexual and psychological relationship that frightens even as it fascinates her--and as the date of Stephan's release from prison draws near, Marya's new life splits apart at the seams.
Zazie
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, Zazie in the Metro remains as stylish and witty as ever.
MY PARIS STORY
I was conceived in Casablanca, transported across the Atlantic in Solonge Medina’s womb and born in Monongahela, PA, just seventeen miles downriver from Pittsburgh.
So you might say that my French life began in utero.
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THE CUISINE OF LIMOUSIN
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