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Also by Stephen Clarke:

Talk to the Snail, January 2007
Hardcover

TALK TO THE SNAIL
By: Stephen Clarke

Ten Commandments for Understanding the French

Bloomsbury USA
January 2007
On Sale: December 26, 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 1596913096
EAN: 9781596913097
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Have you ever walked into a half-empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it’s “complet”? Attempted to say “merci beaucoup” and accidentally complimented someone’s physique? Been overlooked at the boulangerie due to your adherence to the bizarre foreign custom of waiting in line? Well, you’re not alone. The internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love has been there too, and he is here to help. In Talk to the Snail, Stephen Clarke distills the fruits of years spent in the French trenches into a truly handy (and hilarious) book of advice. Read this book, and find out how to get good service from the grumpiest waiter; be exquisitely polite and brutally rude at the same time; and employ the language of l’amour and le sexe. Everything you need is here in this funny, informative, and seriously useful guide to getting what you really want from the French.

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