Scott Dominic Carpenter

French Like Moi

A Midwesterner in Paris

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Produktbeschreibung

In eighteen hilarious accounts, prize-winning humorist Scott Carpenter lifts the curtain on what passes for normal in Europe¿s most glorious capital, measuring it by the yardstick of the American Midwest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Travelers' Tales
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781609521837
• ISBN-10: 1609521838
• Artikelnr.: 59422124

Autorenporträt

Minnesota-born and Midwest-bred, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews¿ ¿Best Books of 2013¿) and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018), recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and semi-finalist for the Many Voices Project Prize, he has published work in a wide variety of venues, including The Rumpus, Silk Road, Catapult, South Dakota Review, and various anthologies. He lives 45 miles from Minneapolis in Northfield, Minnesota, and Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: CAME
Murders in the Rue Bobillot
Either/Or
La Modification
City of Light Bulbs
The Immigrant
The Tab (Or: How to Get in Trouble Without Really Trying)
The General Assembly
Part Two: SAW
French Like Moi
The Acute and the Grave
Squirrel Pie and the Golden Derrière
Some Assembly Required
The Medi-Morphosis
The Cartesian Method
Part Three: CONQUERED
Cock-o-Van
War of the Worlds
Underground Man
Too Soon, Too Close
Invisible
Acknowledgments