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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0783893981
ISBN-13: 9780783893983
Jul 2001
Publisher: Random House Inc
479 pages
Large Print
Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series
Language: English |
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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Synopsis
Much of this memoir concerning Gopnik's five-year experience as an American in Paris was printed as the New Yorker column "Paris Journal," where it was the recipient of a 1998 George Polk Award and a 1997 National Magazine Award. With wit and insight, Gopnik relates the joys and difficulties of relocating his young American family to the romantic boulevards of Paris, where his expatriate dreams mingled with the realities of family life.
| Details | | Series: | Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series |
| Size | | Length: | 479 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 24.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Not long after we moved to Paris, in the fall of 1995, my wife, Martha, and I saw, in the window of a shop on the rue Saint-Sulpice, a nineteenth-century engraving, done in the manner, though I'm now inclined to think not from the hand, of Daumier."
Industry Reviews
"...PARIS TO THE MOON is much more than a volume of zingers or a litany of a foreigner's frustrations. It is a deeply contemplative consideration of a place that has fascinated citizens of the world for centuries. Gopnik's is the thinking man's Paris, a place whose appeal is so evident, yet still worth pondering. "
McMahon
"The distinctive brilliance of Gopnik's essays lies in his ability to pick up a subject one would never have imagined it possible to think deeply about and then cover it in thoughts, making connections with literature, sociology and philosophy--all treated in a highly readable way."
De Botton
"[Gopnik is] more an eager explainer than a grand theorist of the difference between Paris and New York. And [his] knack for comparison makes him a master of simile...."
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Levy (10/20/2000)
"Gopnik does write clearly and with verve, and he is intelligent, if also predictable."
Boston Phoenix - William Corbett (12/07/2000)
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