A Town Like Paris

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Fleeing London, in search of adventure & determined to sample some of the famed delights of the City of Light, our hero arrives in Paris with only a suitcase & a determination to have the time of his life. He launches himself into la vie parisienne, throws himself at the local female population & quickly discovers his down-home Aussie charm has no currency in France. Like the monotonous series of rejections he receives from Parisian women, our hero s attempts at assimilation are similarly rebuffed. Undeterred, he teams up with a bunch of like-minded ex-pats & the ensuing years pass in a blur of bachelor-inspired hedonism. Paris is their playground & they discover, to their delight it is a city with a seedy underbelly. As a detached observer who is nevertheless thrust into the daily business of getting by in France, the author is exposed to some of the more unfathomable idiosyncrasies of the French. & just when he thinks Paris has offered him all she has to give, he meets a Paris showgirl an Australian beauty whose sequin-clad high-kicks are the toast of the Champs Elysees. Before he knows it, he is in love & discovering that what he had come to Paris looking for was a lot closer to home than he ever imagined.