Authors: Adam Gopnik
ISBN-13: 9780375758232, ISBN-10: 0375758232
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: Reprint
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.
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.
Without doubt the most influential translator of French culture to the United States.
The Winter Circus | ||
Paris to the Moon | 3 | |
Private Domain | 19 | |
The Strike | 28 | |
The Winter Circus, Christmas Journal 1 | 36 | |
Distant Errors | ||
The Rules of the Sport | 61 | |
The Chill | 69 | |
A Tale of Two Cafes | 78 | |
Distant Errors, Christmas Journal 2 | 86 | |
Papon's Paper Trail | 106 | |
Trouble at the Tower | 123 | |
Lessons from Things | ||
Couture Shock | 129 | |
The Crisis in French Cooking | 144 | |
Barney in Paris | 166 | |
Lessons from Things, Christmas Journal 3 | 174 | |
The Rookie | 196 | |
A Machine to Draw the World | ||
The World Cup, and After | 215 | |
The Balzar Wars | 228 | |
Alice in Paris | 239 | |
A Machine to Draw the World, Christmas Journal 4 | 253 | |
A Handful of Cherries | 271 | |
Like a King | 296 | |
Angels Dining at the Ritz | 312 | |
One Last Ride | 331 | |
Reader's Guide | 339 |