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Life A User’s Manual (Georges Perec)
PARIS BOOK
La Vie mode d’emploi
Tapestry of interwoven stories based on the lives of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment block
(postmodern fiction with literary and historical allusions)
“treatise on the theme of jigsaw puzzles where every chapter is a piece in a puzzle”
– Vit Babenco
“I couldn’t finish this. But you’ll probably like it”
– anon.
Life A User’s Guide
George Perec
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Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
London and Paris before and during the French Revolution
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …”
Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit City Guide
Paris Travel Guide
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Favorite Paris Pastry Spots (Dorie Greenspan)
Snob-Free Paris Travel Guide (Clotilde Dusoulier)
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The Belly of Paris
Le Ventre de Paris The Belly of Paris
Novel by Émile Zola
Émile Zola is interred at the Pantheon (in a crypt with Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas)
Although his initial gravestone remains at the Montmartre Cemetery
Anthony Bourdain’s top 10 books about food The Guardian
The Belly of Paris could only have been written by someone who loved food Rachel Hope Cleves
After reading Emile Zola’s The Belly of Paris, I feel like I have visited the mid 19th Century Les Halles marketplace in France Meridth Gimbel
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