A wonderfully warm and witty love letter to one of the world's great cities. Michael Sadler is a Frenchman manque. As Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence, writes in his Preface, 'Sadler was born in Lewes, a small town in the south of England. This was a geographical accident. He should have emerged from the womb in Paris, looking anxiously about him for a suitable place to have lunch.' He may not have been born there, but Michael Sadler eventually found his spiritual home. An Englishman in Paris is his delightfully warm and witty memoir of his year in the French capital, describing with alternate affection and bemusement such continental confusions as the etiquette of flower-buying, the role of cricket in French foreplay, and the dangers beurre noir presents not just to one's cholesterol levels but also to dry-cleaning bills...
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'[Sadler's] account of their shared experiences reveals much about French (and English) culinary and cultural mores. Sadler's writing is mischevious and exuberant, a Rabelaisian mix of earthiness and erudition that returns with shameless frequency to the call of the gut' OBSERVER
L'autore:
Michael Sadler is a writer and academic. Born in Lewes, he now lives in Paris, where he teaches an MA course in Contemporary French Studies at the British Institute. He is married with one daughter and grows his own leeks.
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- EditoreSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2002
- ISBN 10 0743207262
- ISBN 13 9780743207263
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine192
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