{"product_id":"paris-paris","title":"Paris, Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Beautifully written and refreshingly original . . . makes us see [Paris] in a different light.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSwapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Elysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDownie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris, and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places and daily life, \u003ci\u003eParis, Paris: Journey into the City of Light\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world's favorite city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhotographs by Alison Harris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eParis, Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I loved his collection of essays and anyone who's visited Paris in the past, or plans to visit in the future, will be equally charmed as well.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Lebovitz, author of\u003ci\u003e The Sweet Life in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] quirky, personal, independent view of the city, its history and its people\"\u003cb\u003e--Mavis Gallant \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gives fresh poetic insight into the city . . . a voyage into 'the bends and recesses, the jagged edges, the secret interiors' [of Paris].\"\u003cb\u003e--Departures\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833737621709,"sku":"9780307886088","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_387f198d-ee90-491e-9e4d-e2bfc8afd907.jpg?v=1790897522","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/paris-paris","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}