Full name: Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

Author: David Downie Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, History, Essays Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780307886088 0307886085

'€œBeautifully 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-Elysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic Île 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. '€œI 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 '€œ[A] quirky, personal, independent view of the city, its history and its people'€'€”Mavis Gallant '€œGives fresh poetic insight into the city'€¦ a voyage into '€˜the bends and recesses, the jagged edges, the secret interiors'€™ [of Paris].'€'€” Departures From the Trade Paperback edition. Similar books: The Flaneur by Edmund White Paris In Mind by Jennifer Lee Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter The Rough Guide to Paris by Ruth Blackmore We'll Always Have Paris by John Baxter Our Paris by Edmund White The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino Stuff Parisians Like by Olivier Magny A Passion for Paris by David Downie Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod Lonely Planet Paris by Steve Fallon Metro Stop Paris by Gregor Dallas Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz City of Djinns by William Dalrymple Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles In Search of King Solomon's Mines by Tahir Shah The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester