From Paris to the Moon [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Gopnik, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679444920 ISBN 13: 9780679444923

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2000

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Physical description; 338 pages. Subjects; Gopnik, Adam - Homes and haunts - France - Paris. Americans - France - Paris. Paris (France) - Social life and customs - 20th century. Genre; Autobiography.

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Revisiting a recurring American obsession with the French capital, the author takes a look at Paris and what it means to Americans as he describes his own relationship with the city.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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ame alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful. It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank café--a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive.

So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, G

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679444920
• ISBN 13: 9780679444923
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338