{"product_id":"paris-paris-journey-into-the-city-of-light-1","title":"Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light","description":"\u003ch1\u003eParis, Paris: Journey into the City of Light\u003c\/h1\u003eDavid Downie\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Crown Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003eApril 5 2011\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780307886088\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0307886085\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003e\"Beautifully written and refreshingly original . . . makes us see [Paris] in a different light.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSwapping 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-Elysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDownie 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, \u003ci\u003eParis, Paris: Journey into the City of Light\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world's favorite city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhotographs by Alison Harris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eParis, Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I loved his collection of essays and anyone who's visited Paris in the past, or plans to visit in the future, will be equally charmed as well.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Lebovitz, author of\u003ci\u003e The Sweet Life in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] quirky, personal, independent view of the city, its history and its people\"\u003cb\u003e--Mavis Gallant \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gives fresh poetic insight into the city . . . a voyage into 'the bends and recesses, the jagged edges, the secret interiors' [of Paris].\"\u003cb\u003e--Departures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390849024045,"sku":"WHS-b871d219a85c4f438b7697b5e7ef9757","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_85ca2b7c-f340-444f-8375-750d804fec7e.jpg?v=1787348241","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/paris-paris-journey-into-the-city-of-light-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}