Places, that make up this wonderful city. Details Or fastest delivery September 21 - 22. Quirks, foibles, and follies, and the peculiar mystery of the people and Travel Europe Buy new: 19.99 FREE delivery Wednesday, September 27. Verve, pinning down the funny and the sublime as he captures on his canvas the Downie, a longtime Paris resident and roamer, writes with knowledge and “If there is one book I’d read before heading to They discover the city’s beauties and pleasures and its problems too.” Visitors and newcomers are bound to find Paris, Paris reliable company as Vouch for and not the clichés so frequently conjured up to match the legends. Residents will recognize a place they can “ quirky, personal, independent view of theĬity, its history, and its people. With wisdom…It is as the French would say, un must.” Paris, Paris shimmers with wit and mesmerizes David Downie’s new book reflects theĬity and its light with such power that its title says it twice. ‘they go to Paris.’ Don’t wait that long. “‘When good Americans die,’ Oscar Wilde wrote, Voyage into ‘the bends and recesses, the jagged edges, the secret interiors’ “Gives fresh poetic insight into the city…A Take the book with you on walks and be astonishedĪt his sense of detail and place read it in bed or over a glass of wine in aĬafé and be introduced to a Paris few know.” Opened and their knowledge widened should buy David Downie’s irresistibleĬollection of Paris essays. “All visitors to Paris who want their eyes The authors encyclopedic knowledge of the city and its artists grants him a mystical gift of access: doors left. Tradition of portraying the City of Light with an original and endearing “Downie brilliantly upholds the American expat “Perhaps the most evocative American book about Substance of the city with a critic’s intelligence and a lover’s heart. He understands and evokes the soul and the “David Downie’s prose illuminates Paris with an Spectators alike, this book paints Paris from a delightful, fresh perspective.” “Suitable for serious Francophiles and curious “Compelling…A rapturous, history-rich love poem.” Patience…Captures the sort of people and places missed by those jetting from Like Père Lachaise, observing a seduction at Jardin du Luxembourg with a birder’s Narrow ancient streets of the Île de la Cité, picnicking in storied graveyards “Downie is a saunterer, wandering down the Paris meld history, atmosphere, and observations on Paris places, “The delightful and insightful essays in Paris, Unflinching in describing his adopted home…Makes us see in a different Original…Curious and attentive to detail, Downie is appreciative yet Streets with him, and reading this book is just as tactile an experience.” Nocturnes’ and the ‘poinçonneur des Lilas.’ I have walked some of the city’s The bizarre forgotten artisans lost graves (lost till now) the ‘papillons Public city that is, in fact, full of secrets-great lives, lives wasted on Hermitage and its history in Sokurov’s Russian Ark, David Downie is Who’s visited Paris in the past, or plans to visit in the future, will be “I loved his collection of essays, and anyone 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. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris and writing about the city he loves. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-├ëlys├®es to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of P├¿re-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens, and the aristocratic ├Äle Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.ĭownie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. His professional guides, and regular travelers, answer timely questions you won’t find elsewhere.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. Google: “Rick Steves Travel Forum” for answers to specific Paris, France travel questions. There are a number of useful “36 Hours in Paris” features available in the archives of the New York Times’ Travel Section. If you would rather just read about Paris, here are some suggestions: Paris American Academy’s Creative Writing Program If you think this is something you might enjoy, check out these websites: I regularly participate in (English language) writing workshops during my visits to Paris. One day, in the not-to-distant future, I hope to share some of my own writings in this space.
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