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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Bay Public Library | 818.609 Sot | 33874005178875 | Adult - Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 0735224838 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780735224834 (hardcover)
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xvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm
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- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2019]
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| Formatted Contents Note: | The art of the unfortunate event -- She had me at ... Read More |
| Summary, etc.: | "Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about ... Read More |
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| Subject: | Sothen, John von Americans France Biography France Social life and customs 21st century Authors, American 21st century Biography |
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| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aThe art of the unfortunate event -- She had me at bah -- The aristocrats -- Bringing up Bibi -- Six weeks of not so great time off -- Letter from the no-go zone -- Huge in France -- Voulez-vous think tank avec moi? -- Wesh we can -- Will you be my French friend? -- Years and years and years in Normandy -- The French resistant -- There's no place like chez moi. |
| 520 | . | ‡a"Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling for and marrying the French waitress he meets in New York, von Sothen follows his mother's dream and moves to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Through these essays, you'll learn about what to do when you unwittingly commit yourself to two weeks of vacation with friends who ration snacks down to the gram and who mock you mercilessly for sleeping in; how to react when French men turn to you, the American, for fashion tips such as where to find a Maine trapper vest; and how to tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or, alternately, a weird sex club. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home." --Provided by publisher. | |
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