
Paris
$22.67
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2020
Summary
‘The most bizarre and delicious of travel books’ – Observer
Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900 and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around its secret stairways, courtyards, alleys, and hidden places. Whether evoking the cool of a deserted church on a hot summer’s day, remembering Notre Dame in a winter storm in 1940, describing chestnut trees lit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141194653 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141194650 |
| Author: | Julian Green, Lila Azam Zanganeh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 50g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Truthful, unpretentious and haunting
Truthful, unpretentious and haunting The Times Literary Supplement Exquisitely literary in a traditional French manner New York Review of Books Paris has many moments of truly arresting beauty…the attention to detail is astonishing, and reflects the memories of someone who has devoted years of their life to the art of getting lost in the city Observer A magical memoir of Paris…His non-fiction has a tender emotional directness that remains startling and original…Like many great writers on urban life, Green became the city he inhabited, and his book is as much a guide to the inside of his mind as it is to Paris Telegraph
About The Author
Julian Green
Julian Green (Author)
Julian Green was born in Paris in 1900, the son of American parents. He published over sixty-five books in France, including novels, essays, plays and fourteen volumes of his journal. During the First World War, he served in the American Red Cross and then in the French Army; during the Second World War, he worked at the US Office of War Information, broadcasting to France on the radio. As an American, Julian Green gained the honour of being the only foreign member of the Academie Francaise. He died in Paris in 1998.
Lila Azam Zanganeh (Introducer)
Lila Azam Zanganeh is an Iranian-French writer. She is the author of The Enchanter- Nabokov and Happiness and edited a volume of essays by Iranian writers, My Sister Guard Your Veil, My Brother Guard Your Eyes. She was a member of the jury for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for fiction.
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