Inside A Pearl - My Years In Paris
by Edmund White
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1408837854
- ISBN 13
- 9781408837856
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Bloomsbury, Great Britain, 2014. Trade Paperback. Fine Condition. When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldnt speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take a teaching position in the U.S., he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and in his work as a journalist, hed made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. Hed also developed a close friendship with an older woman, Marie-Claude, through which hed come to understand French life and culture in a deeper way.The books title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half-light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in City Boy). White fell headily in love with the city and its culture: both intoxicated and intellectually stimulated. He became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet; he wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud; and he became a recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Inside a Pearl recalls those fertile years for White. Its a memoir which gossips and ruminates, and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an aura of enchantment. Gift Quality 261 pages. GIFT QUALITY . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781408837856. Inventory No: 231383. . 9781408837856
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 231383
- Title
- Inside A Pearl - My Years In Paris
- Author
- Edmund White
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1408837854
- ISBN 13
- 9781408837856
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; EAN: 9781408837856 Edmund White Inside A Pearl - My Years In Paris
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- Autobiography / Memoir;
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