We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light - Softcover

Baxter, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060832886 ISBN 13: 9780060832889

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life. Globe-trotting film critic and writer John Baxter heard her siren song and was bewitched. Now he offers readers a witty, audacious, scandalous behind-the-scenes excursion into the colorful all-night show that is Paris -- interweaving his own experience of falling in love, with a delightfully salacious tour of the sultry Parisian corners most guidebooks ignore: from the literary cafés of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and de Beauvoir to the brothels where Dietrich and Duke Ellington held court, where Salvador Dali sated his fantasies, and Edward VII kept a sumptuous champagne bath for his favorite girls.

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Review:

"'We'll Always Have Paris is nothing less than an explosive orgy of French cultural and erotic delights'" (Jeffrey Greene, author of French Spirits)

"'Towers above most recent memoirs of life abroad ... considerably more irresistible than many of the performers at Bernadin's Crazy Horse Show'" (Sunday Times)

"'A charming insider's guide to literary and artistic Paris ... richly discursive, beautifully held together...if you can't hop on the Eurostar, this little volume and a glass of red make an excellent substitute'" (John Harding, Daily Mail)

Book Description:

From the book-collecting author of A Pound of Paper, a personal anecdotal guide to Paris illuminating its recent erotic Bohemian past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060832886
• ISBN 13: 9780060832889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352