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Impossible city : Paris in the 21st century / Simon Kuper.
Van Pelt Library DC705.K87 A3 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuper, Simon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kuper, Simon, (Journalist).
- Kuper, Simon.
- Journalists--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Authors--21st century--Biography.
- Authors.
- Paris (France)--Biography.
- Paris (France).
- Paris (France)--21st century.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary genre)
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 258 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First US edition.
- Other Title:
- Paris in the 21st century
- Paris in the twenty-first century
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, 2024.
- Summary:
- Kuper's captivating memoir about life in Paris over the last two decades, chronicling his experiences as a journalist, an ex-pat, and an ordinary family man in this turbulent and beguiling city. Publisher description.
- Contents:
- The real Paris
- The accidental Parisian
- Losing to London: Paris versus the Anglosphere
- Parisian neighbours
- The kids learn Parisian
- Real Parisian traffic code
- Code-breaking charlatan
- Neighbourhood terrorism
- Refuge
- Paris for Jews
- Day of the three cafes
- Tiniest elite
- Who's for dinner?
- Macron: the seducer who ate Paris
- How to become French
- Suburbs win the World Cup
- Revolution against Paris
- Sexual reckoning with 1968
- Paris by bike
- Luxury city?
- Grand Paris: the making of a new metropolis
- Suburban Olympics
- Death in Paris
- Glossary
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257).
- ISBN:
- 9781541704824
- 1541704827
- OCLC:
- 1401906644
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