We'll Always Have Paris: Sex And Love In The City Of Light - Hardcover

Baxter, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385606400 ISBN 13: 9780385606400

Publisher: Doubleday, 2005

Synopsis

For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism and politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived because he had fallen in love with a French woman. All of these people arrived because they were re-making their lives.

WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS is a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally and intellectually hungry of the world. It is a guided tour of the people and places associated with the Parisian legend. It includes interviews with painters, film-makers, actresses, writers, poets. There are visits to the cafes of Montparnasse where Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Man Ray hung out. It explores the old brothels - temples of sensuality in 18th century Paris - and an erotic bookshop. Above all, it is John Baxter's personal history of Europe's most romantic capital city.

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Review:

'A charming insider's guide to literary and artistic Paris ... Excellent.' -- Daily Mail

'Armchair travel at its most irresistible and romantic.' -- Daily Mail

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

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: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385606400
• ISBN 13: 9780385606400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352