In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods,
award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling
excursion of Montparnasse. By the IACP Award-winning author of the
national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World,
MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present delights of the iconic
neighborhood that is best associated with the vibrant 1920-30s-era
Paris-a romantic time and place evoked in Hemingway's memoir A
Moveable Feast and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. From the first
meeting of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to their friendship's
bitter conclusion; from the courage of the anti-Nazi resistance to
the clubs where German generals partied; from the attempted murder
of Samuel Beckett to the rise of Josephine Baker to stardom; from
the high life of the Coupole and the Cafe du Dome to the bawdy
music halls of rue de la Gaite; no Paris quarter has witnessed more
tumultuous events than Montparnasse. In a ground-breaking
reappraisal of this most glamorous of Paris's districts, Baxter
looks beyond the nostalgia to the secret history of Montparnasse, a
district where desire effaced memory and every taste could be
satisfied-even those which were unexpressed. If, as Oscar Wilde
suggested, all good Americans went to Paris when they died, it was
Montparnasse that brought them back to life.
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