Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918

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Price
$15.99  $14.87
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publish Date
Pages
416
Dimensions
5.0 X 7.1 X 0.9 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780062221407

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About the Author

John Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of four acclaimed memoirs about his life in France: The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France; The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris; Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas; and We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light. Baxter, who gives literary walking tours through Paris, is also a film critic and biographer whose subjects have included the directors Fellini, Kubrick, Woody Allen, and most recently, Josef von Sternberg. Born in Australia, he lives with his wife and daughter in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, in the same building Sylvia Beach called home.

Reviews
"An enjoyable, swift read . . . as fun as a work of historical fiction."--Kirkus Reviews
"Captivating.... In the series of vignettes and anecdotes that make up this elegant and sophisticated book, Baxter reveals an encyclopaedic knowledge of the City of Light."--Sydney Morning Herald
"A lively Parisian narrative. ... Engaging."--New York Times Book Review
"Well-researched and entertaining. ... The content is compelling and the writing vivid. ... Baxter's anecdotes and observations are consistently enlightening."--Washington Post
"Engaging. ... An entertaining story of wartime Paris, and of Baxter's search to find his heritage within it."--The Australian
"Lively and characterful. ... Shows the panache the French brought to their 'improvised' war."--Liesl Schillinger in the New York Times (9 Books That Would Make Great Gifts)
"An intimate memoir of his grandfather's experiences of that war. ... All this is done with Baxter's inimitable lightness of touch and conversational style, which often belies the profound knowledge he has of his adoptive city."--Anton Gill, author of A Dance Between the Flames: Berlin Between the Wars and An Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945
"The most original and unexpectedly beguiling account of the Great War I have ever read. John Baxter is one of the master storytellers of our age ... A revelation, an adventure, a joy to read."--Kevin Jackson, author of Constellation of Genius:1922: Modernism Year One.