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Feb 09, 2016
In this delightful memoir, author John Baxter discusses his ex-pat life in the City of Light. Between musings on Parisians' penchant for walking and recollections of his own strolls, he shares amusing anecdotes about family life (he's married to a French woman, but no one in her family can cook) and everyday life as well as offering fascinating historical insight into the city by discussing literary lights like Hemingway and covering a serial killer and World War II. Baxter's stories provide an evocative, multi-faceted view of one of the greatest cities in the world. For another walking tour of Paris, try Edmund White's The Flaneur.