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Something to declare : essays on France and French culture / Julian Barnes.
LIBRA - Special DC33.7 .B315 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Julian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Civilization.
- France.
- Civilization.
- France--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- France--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage International edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Barnes' long and passionate relationship with La Belle France began 40 years ago, and in these essays on the country and its culture, he combines a lively appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as classic haute couture.
- Contents:
- An Englishman abroad
- Spending their deaths on holiday
- The promises of their ordination
- The land without Brussels sprouts
- Tour de France 1907
- Tour de France 2000
- The pouncer
- French letters
- Flaubert's death-masks
- Not drowning but waving : the case of Louise Colet
- Drinking ink
- Two moles
- Consolation v. desolation
- Tail-flaying
- The cost of conscientious literature
- Faithful betrayal
- Justin : a small major character.
- Notes:
- Articles previously published in various publications between 1982 and 2000.
- Includes index.
- A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year.
- ISBN:
- 1400030870
- 9781400030873
- OCLC:
- 53018867
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