Paris in the Fifties
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299247468 (1299247466)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Edition language: English
Stanley Karnow is definitely a great writer, but I'm much more interested in the artists and revolutionary writers of 1950's Paris, not the cigar-smoking, gin-playing, "Mad Men" of the newspaper world. If that's your bag, pick this book up immediately, otherwise skip it.
Like the blurb says: "A beautiful and bygone era comes to life again in this exquisite chronicle of postwar Paris, elegantly penned by an award-winning American journalist who was there."Exquisite and elegant in the same sentence. Sounds like something I'd dash off. Karnow has a knack for nimbly nav...
Like the blurb says: "A beautiful and bygone era comes to life again in this exquisite chronicle of postwar Paris, elegantly penned by an award-winning American journalist who was there."Exquisite and elegant in the same sentence. Sounds like something I'd dash off. Karnow has a knack for nimbly nav...
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