Author: Adam Gopnik
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Jul 2001
Observing the Observers in Paris by Phyllis Grosskurth
Many books have been written by North Americans who have fled to Paris in search of romance, but none, I venture, more enchanting than Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon. I read most of the sections originally in the New Yorker, but to have them now combined into a cohesive five-year saga of the life of a transplanted little family is sheer bliss.
What makes one book more appealing than another? In this case it is undoubtedly the open, good-natured, unassuming personality of the writer himself Read more...
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