"Beautifully written and refreshingly original... makes us see
Paris] in a different light." -- "San Francisco Chronicle""Book
Review"
Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel
writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket,
his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a
cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated,
seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Elysees to the old
Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of
Pere-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg
Gardens and the aristocratic ile Saint-Louis midstream in the
Seine.
Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the
Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally
incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century
later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through
Paris, and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent, witty
romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places
and daily life, "Paris, "Paris" Journey into the City of Light"
ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters
of the world's favorite city.
Photographs by Alison Harris.
"I loved his collection of essays and anyone who's visited Paris in
the past, or plans to visit in the future, will be equally charmed
as well." --David Lebovitz, author of" The Sweet Life in Paris"
" A] quirky, personal, independent view of the city, its history
and its people"--Mavis Gallant
"Gives fresh poetic insight into the city... a voyage into 'the
bends and recesses, the jagged edges, the secret interiors' of
Paris]."-- Departures
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