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Authors: Adam Gopnik
ISBN-13: 9780375758232, ISBN-10: 0375758232
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986, and his work for the magazine has won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He broadcasts regularly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the author of the article on the culture of the United States in the last two editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. From 1995 to 2000, Gopnik lived in Paris, where the newspaper Le Monde praised his "witty and Voltairean picture of French life" and the weekly magazine Le Point wrote, "It is impossible to resist delighting in the nuances of his articles, for the details concerning French culture that one discovers even when one is French oneself." He now lives in New York with his wife, Martha Parker, and their two children, Luke and Olivia.

Book Synopsis

The comic-romantic adventures of an American family in Paris is penned by "The New Yorker" writer and author of the magazine's popular "Paris Journal" column. The private story is rooted in the sentimental reeducation of a weary American through the experience of his son's childhood in France.

Le Point Magazine

Without doubt the most influential translator of French culture to the United States.

Table of Contents

The Winter Circus
Paris to the Moon3
Private Domain19
The Strike28
The Winter Circus, Christmas Journal 136
Distant Errors
The Rules of the Sport61
The Chill69
A Tale of Two Cafes78
Distant Errors, Christmas Journal 286
Papon's Paper Trail106
Trouble at the Tower123
Lessons from Things
Couture Shock129
The Crisis in French Cooking144
Barney in Paris166
Lessons from Things, Christmas Journal 3174
The Rookie196
A Machine to Draw the World
The World Cup, and After215
The Balzar Wars228
Alice in Paris239
A Machine to Draw the World, Christmas Journal 4253
A Handful of Cherries271
Like a King296
Angels Dining at the Ritz312
One Last Ride331
Reader's Guide339

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