Paris Was Ours

Name: Paris Was Ours
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ISBN: 9781565129535

ISBN-10: 1565129539

ISBN-13: 9781565129535

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Authors: Penelope Rowlands

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Paris is "the world capital of memory and desire," concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays--more than half of which are here published for the first time--the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it's done in French movies, they came from the United States, Canada, and England; from Iran, Iraq, and Cuba; and--a few--from other parts of France. And they stayed, not as tourists, but for a long time; some are…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 2/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

PENELOPE ROWLANDS has written about culture and the arts for Architectural Digest, the Daily Beast, Vogue, WSJ. Magazine, and other publications. Her books include the anthology Paris Was Ours and A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters, a biography of the legendary editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Find her at www.peneloperowlands.com.