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Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French

Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French

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Author: von Sothen, John

Brand: Viking

Color: Cream

Number Of Pages: 288

Details: A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ 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. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved 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--not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. 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.

EAN: 9780735224834

Release Date: 07-05-2019

Languages: English

Item Note: Book is in very good condition! The dust jacket has light wear. The pages are near new.

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood

Binding: Hardcover

PartNumber: 0735224838_used

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