Our Paris
Subtitle: sketches from memory
By: Edmund White ; with drawings by Hubert Sorin.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: White, Edmund, 1940- -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris.; Sorin, Hubert -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris.; Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.; Gay men -- France -- Paris -- Biography.; AIDS (Disease) -- France -- Paris.; 4e Arrondissement (Paris, France) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.; Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Description: Edmund White, one of our most celebrated writers, and the French artist Hubert Sorin offer us a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of their favorite people and places in and around their neighborhood, the run-down heart of Paris called the Chatelet. It is an enchantingly varied world, populated not only by dazzling literati and ultra-chic couturiers and art dealers but also by poetic shopkeepers, grandmotherly prostitutes, and, ever underfoot, an irrepressible basset hound named Fred.

The foibles and eccentricities of these sometimes outrageous, always memorable individuals are brought to life with unfailing wit and affection. Below the surface of this sparkling comedy there is a tragic undercurrent, for while Sorin was completing his work, he was nearing the end of his struggle with AIDS. The book is a tribute to the brave spirit that led the authors to banish the somber and to celebrate the pleasures of their life together, as well as the differences between them.
Notes: Originally published under the title: Sketches from memory. London : Chatto & Windus : Picador, 1994.