I'll Always Have Paris!: A Memoir [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Buchwald, Art

Verlag: G.P Putnam's Sons, New York, 1996

Beschreibung

As new condition beige boards with a red spine and silver front cover and spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page List of Books by Art Buchwald; Dedication; Merci Beaucoup; and Author's Note. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, a black-and-white photographic frontispiece, and black-and-white photographic front and rear endpapers. Signed by the author in black pen on the half title page. Also includes a tipped-in 1996 newspaper article from the Vineyard Gazette, Martha's Vineyard, Mass re: I'll Always Have Paris! "The renowned humorist continues his bestselling memoirs, into the dazzling Paris of the late 1940s and the 1950s. Readers loved Leaving Home, Art Buchwald's poignant, bold, funny memoir of a not-so-funny childhood, the only complaint being: "It ends too soon" (Chicago Sun-Times). "The rest of the story can't come soon enough," Kirkus Reviews agreed -- and now here it is. Or at least some of it. Here we find twenty-two-year-old Art, in June 1948, one of the army of "fresh, peach-cheeked Americans" invading postwar France, and ready to embark on the greatest adventure of his life. Over the next fourteen years he would invent himself: a foster child from Queens suddenly hobnobbing with some of the most powerful and famous people in the world; landing a job with the legendary Paris Herald Tribune, with no legitimate experience whatsoever; and telling people where to go and what to eat mostly on the basis of his food-tasting experiences with the Marine Corps mess and the USC student union. He crashed costume balls in Venice, hunted bats in Sussex, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, clashed with police in Paris, spoofed Hemingway in the Congo, and dined with gangsters in Naples. From sidewalk cafes to society weddings, Buchwald reported on the folkways and foibles of the International Set, becoming everybody's favorite American in Paris - and one thing more. For in meeting and marrying a redhead named Ann, and then adopting three children, he also became what his foster childhood had never prepared him to be: a family man. This was perhaps his greatest invention of all. Filled with Art Buchwald's wonderful gift for storytelling, I'll Always Have Paris is a true delight." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004369

Bibliografische Details

Titel: I'll Always Have Paris!: A Memoir [SIGNED ...

Verlag: G.P Putnam's Sons, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1996

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition