Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
304 pages ISBN: 0374146683 EAN: 9780374146689 Kindle: B0071VUTFC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A fresh, exhilarating take on one of the world’s most
popular topics—Paris, the City of Light!—by an acclaimed
young novelist
A self-described Francophile, Rosecrans Baldwin always
dreamed of living in Paris—drinking le café, eating les
croissants, walking in les jardins—so when the opportunity
to work as a copywriter for an advertising agency in Paris
presented itself, he couldn’t turn it down. Despite the fact
that he had no experience in advertising. And despite the
fact that he wasn’t exactly fluent in French.
Paris, I Love You but You’re 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 McDonald’s beneath the Louvre—the story
of an American who loves Paris all out of proportion, who
loves every beret and baguette cliché, but who finds life
there to be very different from what he expected. At first,
it’s 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 situations—at 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 city—exactly what he needs to uncover a Paris of his
own, and fall in love with the city all over again.
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