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    Paris, Paris

    Written by David Downie

    Narrated by Max Winter

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    About this audiobook

    Swapping 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-Élysées 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.

    Downie 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, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City
    of Light     ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and
    characters of the world’s favorite city.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlackstone Audio
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    ISBN9781481594264
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    Paris, Paris
    Author

    David Downie

    David Downie is a renowned author who has written numerous books on the topics of travel, food, and the arts in addition to novels. A native of San Francisco, he has lived in New York, Rome, and Milan. He currently divides his time between France and Italy.

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    • 3/5
      This is part history, part social commentary, part memoir. It is good like the curate's egg, in parts and meanders a little at other times.
    • 5/5
      Another of my travel preparation reads, this book is an absolute delight, as well as an invaluable guide to the people, places and phenomena of Paris. It’s far more than a guide however. It unlocks the secret soul of Paris in a way that only a true lover of the city could. Downie is certainly that, having lived there with his wife since the 1980s. He has the gift of capturing places that allows you to see them in a new and intriguing light, and to arouse your curiosity so immediately that you are compelled to find out more. There are some outstanding chapters on Parisian haunts that lots of people may think they know well, such as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Père Lachaise Cemetery, the old Les Halles area, the Marais and so on. In Downie’s book you’ll be taken on such a lively and vivid tour, complete with history, little known facts and quirky details that, like me, you won’t rest until you can experience it all for yourself.
    • 4/5
      Note to self: Edit bucket list.