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PARIS, I LOVE YOU BUT YOU'RE BRINGING ME DOWN
By: Rosecrans Baldwin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0374146683
EAN: 9780374146689
Kindle: B0071VUTFC
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A fresh, exhilarating take on one of the worldβs most popular topicsβParis, the City of Light!βby an acclaimed young novelist A self-described Francophile, Rosecrans Baldwin always dreamed of living in Parisβdrinking le cafΓ©, eating les croissants, walking in les jardinsβso when the opportunity to work as a copywriter for an advertising agency in Paris presented itself, he couldnβt turn it down. Despite the fact that he had no experience in advertising. And despite the fact that he wasnβt exactly fluent in French. Paris, I Love You but Youβre Bringing Me Down is a nimble, comical account of observing the French capital from the inside out. It is an expedition into the Paris of Sarkozy, smoking bans, and a McDonaldβs beneath the Louvreβthe story of an American who loves Paris all out of proportion, who loves every beret and baguette clichΓ©, but who finds life there to be very different from what he expected. At first, itβs just the joy of running across the lingerie section in the hardware store, but over the next eighteen months, Rosecrans must rely on his American optimism to get him through some very unromantic situationsβat work (where he discovers a shockingly long-honored Parisian work ethic), at home (where his wife, who works at home, is dismayed not just by his hours but by the active construction that surrounds their apartment on five sides), and everywhere in between. An offbeat, up-to-date, surprising entry in the expat canon, Paris, I Love You is a book about a young man who witnesses his preconceptions replaced by the oddities of a vigorous, nervy cityβexactly what he needs to uncover a Paris of his own, and fall in love with the city all over again.
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