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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...
if you like books in which people get divorced with barely a thought, have affairs without a twinge of guilt,run vineyards/businesses abroad with no money and no knowledge, while having the choice of two boyfriends, one of whom happens to be a film-star..this is for you..if not...give it a miss....
if you like books in which people get divorced with barely a thought, have affairs without a twinge of guilt,run vineyards/businesses abroad with no money and no knowledge, while having the choice of two boyfriends, one of whom happens to be a film-star..this is for you..if not...give it a miss....
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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