Adam Gopnik. Much of the contents of this book was originally published in The New Yorker. ISBN Gopnik, Adam-Homes and haunts-France-Paris. Paris France -Social life and customsth century. Random House website address: www. But how can it be helped? We're all looking at each other-and in the light of Paris one sees what things resemble. That's what the light of Paris seems always to show. It's the fault of the light of Paris-dear old light! But sometimes-yes. The Winter Circus. Paris to the Moon.
Private Domain. The Strike. Distant Errors. The Rules of the Sport. The Chill. A Tale of Two Cafes. Papon's Paper Trail. Trouble at the Tower. Lessons from Things. Couture Shock. The Cisis in French Cooking. Barney in Paris. Lessons from Things, Cristmas Journal 3. The Rookie.
The World Cup, and After. The Balzar Wars. Alice in Paris. A Handful of Cherries. Like a King. Angels Dining at the Ritz. One Last Ride. An American family arrives in Paris, is greeted by bombs and strikes, and a good time is had by all. Emisration becomes expatriation, confusion reigns, and serenity Is sought in the Luxembourg Gardens.
Food, fashion, and foibles teach their complicated lessons in the struggle between Administration and Civilization. Lessons from Things, Christmas Journal 3 Serenity is found in calm and contemplation, and the deep tragedy of history revealed. All chords are sounded and the bella rung in the birth of a new French baby.
Not long after we moved to Paris, in the fall of , my wife, Martha, and I saw, in the window of a shop on the rue Saint-Sulpice, a nineteenth-century engraving, done in the manner, though I'm now inclined to think not from the hand, of Daumier.
