Paris in love : a memoir / Eloisa James.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 260 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780812981902 (pbk.) :
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Adult Book | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | Adult Non-Fiction | Adult Non-Fiction | 813.54 JAM | Available | pap.ed. | 36748002409037 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Wilde in Love, a joyful chronicle of a year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Paris.
"What a beautiful and delightful tasting menu of a book: the kids, the plump little dog, the Italian husband. Reading this memoir was like wandering through a Parisian patisserie in a dream. I absolutely loved it."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
When bestselling romance author Eloisa James took a sabbatical from her day job as a Shakespeare professor, she also took a leap that many people dream about: She sold her house and moved her family to Paris.
With no classes to teach, no committee meetings to attend, no lawn to mow or cars to park, Eloisa revels in the ordinary pleasures of life--discovering corner museums that tourists overlook, chronicling Frenchwomen's sartorial triumphs, walking from one end of Paris to another. She copes with her Italian husband's notions of quality time; her two hilarious children, ages eleven and fifteen, as they navigate schools--not to mention puberty--in a foreign langua≥ and her mother-in-law Marina's raised eyebrow in the kitchen (even as Marina overfeeds Milo, the family dog).
Paris in Love invites the reader into the life of a New York Times bestselling author and her spirited, enchanting family, framed b y la ville de l'amour .
Praise for Paris in Love
"Exhilarating and enchanting . . . brims with a casual wisdom about life." -- Chicago Tribune
"In this delightful charm-bracelet of a memoir, [Eloisa James shares] her adventures as an American suddenly immersed in all things French--food, clothes, joie de vivre." -- People
"Enchanting . . . gives the reader a sense of being immersed along with James in Paris for a year . . . you see the rain, taste the food, observe the people." -- USA Today
"This delectable confection, which includes recipes, is more than a visit to a glorious city: it is also a tour of a family, a marriage, and a love that has no borders. Très magnifique! " -- Library Journal (starred review)
"A charming, funny and poignant memoir . . . steeped in Paris and suffused with love." -- Star Tribune
"Charming . . . a romance--for a city, a life, a family, and love itself." -- The Huffington Post
James chronicles her joyful year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world--Paris--all the while inviting her reader into the life of her most enchanting family.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Author's Note (p. ix)
- An Introduction to La Vie Parisienne (p. 3)
- A Parisian Fall (p. 9)
- The Eiffel Tower (p. 20)
- Chastised by Dior (p. 29)
- The Robin-Anthem (p. 46)
- Grief (p. 60)
- A Parisian Winter (p. 71)
- In Church with Scrooge (p. 86)
- Vertigo (p. 102)
- Chicken Soup (p. 134)
- A Parisian Spring (p. 145)
- Of Breasts and Bras (p. 161)
- Of Rice and Men (p. 178)
- Fighting Through the Holidays (p. 186)
- The Horror that is the School Play (p. 202)
- A Slice of Parisian Summer (p. 212)
- On French Women, and Whether they Get Fat (p. 218)
- Rose (p. 235)
- The End (p. 243)
- Acknowledgments (p. 248)
- My Very Idiosyncratic Guide to a Few Places in Paris (p. 249)