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Paris Was Ours (2011)

by Penelope Rowlands(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1565129539 (ISBN13: 9781565129535)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Algonquin Books

review 1: Warning: unless you have enough money for a ticket to France, beware this book. It will make you pine for Paris like nothing else. I loved most of these recollections of Paris by various authors, some of which I had heard of before. Paris is well on its way to becoming a mythical place for me as well as the real place I've visited. So much nostalgia in these accounts to add to my own. Time to enjoy a few more course of the moveable feast. :)
review 2: This book surprised me. I was expecting nice, little vignettes on Paris, but the depth of the writing and the wide variety of writer ethnicities made this book much more than that, from the wife of a Cuban diplomat who fainted upon seeing and smelling roast chicken, which she hadn't had since she was ten years old... more in Cuba, to the African-American woman who swore she wasn't American, just black, but was assured by Parisians that was sooo American, one really gets a varied view of all things Paris. I highly recommend this book. less

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