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Title: Our Paris: Sketches from Memory by Edmund White, Hubert Sorin ISBN: 0-06-008592-4 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Parisian anecdotes told with American-style intimacy
Comment: I picked up this little book for a return flight from Paris to LA. It looked like perfect plane reading -- short, gossipy, topical. And although it lived up to each of those expectations, the devastation implicit in the book (and explicit at the end) hit hard. The book is not easily forgettable -- and probably no less memorable for the passengers and crew of American Airlines flight 45 who watched me become a sniffling, tear-stained disaster.
It's very intimate, shockingly un-French. White and Sorin invite you into their lives. You feel as if you're at a dinner party listening to them recount(even bicker a little about) their recent mundane adventures. But this intimacy also means that you feel very close to the heartbreaking loss that is the real subject of the book.
It's a beautiful, touching book. The illustrations complement the text (or the text complements the illustrations) perfectly. But if you want to avoid the mess entirely, try The Flaneur.
Rating: 4
Summary: Grand Deception
Comment: I love deceptive books.
Example: _Our Paris_, by Edmund White and Hubert Sorin, is ostensibly a series of short essays, written and illustrated in a fairly direct style, pertaining to life in the city. But in a stunning, disarming preface, White alerts us to the real subtext: his partner's slow death from AIDS. It's this subtext that transforms the book from a pleasant travelogue to a devastating account of loss.
Lurking beneath the book's shimmering surfaces, and within its numerous lacunae, is the emotional life of a couple threatened by the fast-approaching specter of death. An attentive reading of White's text and Hubert Sorin's illustrations reveals the mauvaise foi, the daily negotiations, the implicit contract of domestic denial that enables an endangered couple to keep death at bay for just a little longer.
_Our Paris_ looks slight, as if it were merely a pleasant evening's worth of travel anecdotes and gossip. But if you take yourself into this book's confidence, it will reveal unexpected secrets.
Rating: 5
Summary: Paris, the French, love, and travel -- and eventual loss.
Comment: This is a sweet collection of short pieces, quirky and personal, about a tiny Parisian neighborhood, Paris itself, the French, lots of friends, and a great dog named Fred. Most of all: about Edmund White and his lover Hubert Sorin. Economical yet enjoyably gossipy, kind-hearted, opinionated, informative. Achingly sad, though, because Hubert is dying of AIDS, and in fact does die at the book's end. Definitely worth reading -- especially for fans of Edmund White. Engagingly illustrated by Sorin, who was trained in architecture and took up drawing when he became ill.
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Title: The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White ISBN: 1582341354 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Mavis Gallant, Michael Ondaatje ISBN: 1590170229 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow ISBN: 1402200455 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Paris In Mind by Jennifer Lee ISBN: 1400031028 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull ISBN: 1592400388 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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