Finally someone "steps up to the plate." James Paris tells it like it is! He is true in getting out his message to help fellow Christians. He offers practical advice and even a plan to turn your finances around in 10 days!

This novel thrilled me, at least the title did, that's all i was able to read through

it is still a current reality.
It happened in Spain in 1930's and now in the XXI century in this all-over-the-world fight against neoliberalism!

At the end of the day it only remains a fight between us against them, us against the rich ones.

This is an invaluable book for the classic foreign film enthusiast or curious. The author carefully describes each film in terms of all the technical information one would need to make a choice. It is a comprehensive listing with photos of all the great films of the period. We hope the author will come out with another film book soon.

Excellent Map. Everything you need is on one side. Color coded attractions and Metro are well marked.

I stumbled upon this gem when buying 6 Paris guidebooks to Paris for [a.] a long flight, and [b.] a week of business in France. This Anthony Glyn publication significantly out-did the others. It was insightful, and USEFUL, and, best of all, quite humorous. I liked so much, I bought one dozen as Christmas presents for co-workers with future stints in Paris. I recommend to one, and all -- those visiting briefly as well as those with longer stays.

I intend to buy Mr. Glyn's Rome Companion, and hope he expands his work to other cities in the near future.

An easy to handle book that can be placed anywhere because of its size.The verses are inspirational about the effect nature has on an individual and 2. The reverencing of the majestical power of God is all through the book.I use it as an inspirational book to remember my mother by, that is why I brought it. She loved flowers and she loved life in her own quiet way.

A authorative account of the relationship between theatre audiences, the monarchy and its policing apparatus, and society at large in the shaping of French political culture in the 17th and 18th centuries. A must read for anyone interested in how playwrights, court performances, and enforced standards of audience behavior served the prerogatives of the Old Regime and how the interaction of audiences in the theater pit (the 'Parterre') contributed to the transmutation of the ruling relationship in the formation a French National Identity.

More broadly, this is a tale of two countries: France and America, and how artists are perceived in each.

American expatriates living in France, especially Paris, between the great wars, are well known - Hemingway, Pound, Wolfe, Stein, Miller, Fitzgerald, Cummings, Elliot - just to name a few. What is not as well known or realized is that the exodus continued well into the '60s with Black writers Wright, Baldwin, and Himes, with the Beats, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Burroughs, with mainstream writers, James Jones, Irwin Shaw, Terry Southern, and William Styron, and with academics such as W.H. Auden, Ashbery, Mathews, Brion Gysin, and many many others. What brought them all to France, especially Paris?

Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno's account of American expatriates in France reads like a novel. He enters the minds and hearts of the various authors - their inner thoughts and motivations - in a seemingly effortless narrative, drawing on a vast scholarship. He has read all of their works and letters as well as news and magazine articles of the times. Gertrude Stein was thought to be peculiarly anti-semitic as she sided with the Vichy government, the irascible Hemingway had a vendetta against James Jones (author of *From Here to Eternity*) and Richard Wright noted that "I've learned more about America in one month in Paris than I could in one year in New York." In addition to chronicling little-known facts and anecdotes about the first wave, the author continues the saga with later writers.

He covers all kinds of writing. A most interesting chapter deals with an obscure (in America) experimental French author, Roussel, and the American writers influenced by him - Ashbery, Mathews, Burroughs, Koch. They reinvented what the Dadaists had begun 40 years earlier, a turning of images in cinematic variation, a "systematic derangement of the senses."

Paris is "artistically electric" they agree. Racial prejudice isn't a factor in France (except for the French treatment of the Algerians) but only Baldwin seems to have been upset by this. Where but in France could Ferlinghetti wander into a cafe and find a paper tablecloth with a poem written on it, (signed by Jacques Prevert). "For Ferlinghetti, this was the France of which the legends had been made. On leaving the cafe, he took the tablecloth with him. The incident was prophetic. Fourteen years later, City Lights [in San Francisco] would issue Ferlinghetti's translation of Prevert's 'Paroles'".

Where but in France would landlords lower the rent when they discovered that their tenants were writers or artists? "In short," says this author, "Paris empowered, granted permission to be an artist in a way the United States never had. In the accounts of almost all of the writers profiled in this book, Paris was equated with artistic freedom, with the ability to experiment, to succeed, even to fail, without feeling oneself to be a social deviant [while] In America, they felt, one was more often measured by how financially successful one was, not by what one actually did. Status accrued to those who made money, and the writer, generally not so able to generate an enviable income, was rarely accorded a position of importance in the eyes of the general public."

Said Ginsberg, "You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem a burden." Indeed, Paris allowed "la grande permission" for writers "to work out their own aesthetic directions without being unduly swayed by convention, anti-convention or fashion."

This is not, in my opinion, one of those books that you can't put down. There is so much material here to digest and ponder. But if you're interested in the subject, even though it may take you weeks or even months, you will keep picking it up. The only question I have on finishing it is - the continual pilgrimage -is it still continuing? And if not, why not?

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A joyous book that will make kids and adults laugh