All You Need to Be Impossibly French - Helena Frith Powell • BookLikes (ISBN:1101087269)

All You Need to Be Impossibly French

by: Helena Frith Powell (author)

Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781101087268 (1101087269)

Publish date: November 28th 2006

Publisher: Plume Books

Pages no: 240

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Travel, Cultural, Self Help, France, Womens

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Always Doing rated it

12 years ago

http://alwaysdoing.booklikes.com Always Doing 3.0

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Enh. This book rarely moves past, "French women care about their looks! Have a different cultural outlook on affairs! Buy all kinds of beauty products!" Yes, things are a bit different in France. We get it.In order to give a book a two a book has to make me mad, so this is a very, very low thre...

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She Reads Everything rated it

13 years ago

http://MrsSoule.booklikes.com She Reads Everything 5.0 All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women

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I really enjoyed this ethnography on what gives French women their je ne sais quoi. I loved how honest the writer was about alternately being envious and horrified by French (to be fair, for the most part, Parisian) values - so very postmodern anthropologist of her!

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