Paris to the moon
By: Adam Gopnik
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Gopnik, Adam -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris; Americans -- France -- Paris; Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Description: "In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. His was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful.

It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank cafe - a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive.".

"As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys - both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.