Scott Dominic Carpenter

French Like Moi (eBook, ePUB)

A Midwesterner in Paris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps-not to mention all those lectures about cheese! It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure.

In French Like Moi, Carpenter guides us through the merry labyrinth of the everyday, one hilarious faux pas after another. Through it all, he keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French (and Midwesterners Midwestern).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Travelers' Tales
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609521844
• Artikelnr.: 58260067

Autorenporträt

Scott Dominic Carpenter teaches literature and creative writing at Carleton College (MN). He's the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of 2013") and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. He is also a contributor to Secrets of Paris, the longest-running English-language web resource about 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