Books: Paperbacks

Phelan, Laurence, The Independent (London, England)

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Paris to the Moon

By Adam Gopnik

VINTAGE pounds 7.99

In 1995, Adam Gopnik moved from New York to Paris with his wife and child, fulfilling a lifelong ambition or perhaps even (he hints) a predestination. Over the next five years he wrote home regularly, and the New Yorker published his "Paris Journals", which he's now collected and adapted. He balances a tender and fascinating account of his family life with an insightful outsider's observations of every aspect of French cultural, social and political life. As an American in Paris he's particularly good on the French resistance to cultural imperialism - which is actually, he notes, just …

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Publication information: Article title: Books: Paperbacks. Contributors: Phelan, Laurence - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: May 13, 2001. Page number: 46. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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