num_pages: 303
description: Beautifully written and refreshingly original . . . makes us see [Paris] in a different light. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Elyses to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani the tombs of Pre-Lachaise cemetery the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic le Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people places and daily life Paris Journey into the City of Light ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the worlds favorite city. Photographs by Alison Harris. Praise for Paris ParisI loved his collection of essays and anyone whos visited Paris in the past or plans to visit in the future will be equally charmed as well. David Lebovitz author of The Sweet Life in Paris [A] quirky personal independent view of the city its history and its people Mavis Gallant Gives fresh poetic insight into the city . . . a voyage into the bends and recesses the jagged edges the secret interiors [of Paris]. Departures
language: English
title: Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
publisher: Crown