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Author:	Adam Gopnik	Publisher:	Random House Inc
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-10:	0375758232
Subject:	Biography & Autobiography	ISBN-13:	9780375758232
Topic:	--	Format:	Paperback
Language:	English	Publication Year:	2001
Condition:	Good	Special Attributes:	--

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Much of this memoir concerning Gopnik's five-year experience as an American in Paris was printed as the New Yorker column "Paris Journal," where it was the recipient of a 1998 George Polk Award and a 1997 National Magazine Award. With wit and insight, Gopnik relates the joys and difficulties of relocating his young American family to the romantic boulevards of Paris, where his expatriate dreams mingled with the realities of family life.
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Length:	342 pages
Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
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Weight:	10.4 oz.

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Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. 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. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but 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 café--a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive. So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, Gopnik walked the paths of the Tuileries, enjoyed philosophical discussions at his local bistro, wrote as violet twilight fell on the arrondissements. Of course, as readers of Gopnik's beloved and award-winning "Paris Journals" in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with day-to-day, not-so-fabled life. Evenings with French intellectuals preceded middle-of-the-night baby feedings; afternoons were filled with trips to the Musée d'Orsay and pinball games; weekday leftovers were eaten while three-star chefs debated a "culinary crisis." 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. "We went to Paris for a sentimental reeducation-I did anyway-even though the sentiments we were instructed in were not the ones we were expecting to learn, which I believe is why they call it an education."
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"...PARIS TO THE MOON is much more than a volume of zingers or a litany of a foreigner's frustrations. It is a deeply contemplative consideration of a place that has fascinated citizens of the world for centuries. Gopnik's is the thinking man's Paris, a place whose appeal is so evident, yet still worth pondering. " McMahon "The distinctive brilliance of Gopnik's essays lies in his ability to pick up a subject one would never have imagined it possible to think deeply about and then cover it in thoughts, making connections with literature, sociology and philosophy--all treated in a highly readable way." De Botton "[Gopnik is] more an eager explainer than a grand theorist of the difference between Paris and New York. And [his] knack for comparison makes him a master of simile...." Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Levy (10/20/2000) "Gopnik does write clearly and with verve, and he is intelligent, if also predictable." Boston Phoenix - William Corbett (12/07/2000)

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0375758232
Title : Paris to the Moon
Authors : Adam Gopnik
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publication Date : 09-11-2001
Pages : 368
List Price (MSRP) : $14.95
Weight : 0.63 pounds
Keywords : Biographies & Memoirs: General, Travel: Europe: France: General, Customs & Traditions, France, Journalists, Memoirs, Paperback
Condition : Good

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