Paris Was Ours

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In thirty-two personal essays
- more than half of which are here published for the first time
- the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris & then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it`s done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada, & England; from Iran, Iraq, & Cuba; &
- a few
- from other parts of France. & they stayed, not as tourists, but for a long time; some are still living there. They were outsiders who became insiders, who here share their observations & revelations. Some are well-known writers: Diane Johnson, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman, Joe Queenan, & Edmund White. Others may be lesser known but are no less passionate on the subject. Together, their reflections add up to an unusually perceptive & multifaceted portrait of a city that is entrancing, at times exasperating, but always fascinating. They remind us that Paris belongs to everyone it has touched, & to each in a different way.