{"product_id":"inside-a-pearl-my-years-in-paris-9781620406335","title":"Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take a teaching position in the U.S., he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and in his work as a journalist, he'd made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. He'd also developed a close friendship with an older woman, Marie-Claude, through which he'd come to understand French life and culture in a deeper way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book's title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half-light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in \u003ci\u003eCity Boy\u003c\/i\u003e). White fell headily in love with the city and its culture: both intoxicated and intellectually stimulated. He became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet; he wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud; and he became a recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters. \u003ci\u003eInside a Pearl \u003c\/i\u003erecalls those fertile years for White. It's a memoir which gossips and ruminates, and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an aura of enchantment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund White\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous memoirs, \u003ci\u003eMy Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCity Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, and a previous book on Paris, \u003ci\u003eThe Flâneur\u003c\/i\u003e.His many novels include the autobiographical \u003ci\u003eA Boy's Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003ci\u003e Jack Holmes \u0026amp; His Friend\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also known as a literary biographer and essayist. White lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384315642130,"sku":"9781620406335","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f8adbec-f2ba-4527-8f9d-204720eb74cc.jpg?v=1750169763","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/inside-a-pearl-my-years-in-paris-9781620406335","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}