{"product_id":"montparnasse-pariss-district-of-memory-and-desire-9780062679048","title":"Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Most Beautiful Walk in the World\u003c\/em\u003e, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present delights of the iconic neighborhood that is best associated with the vibrant 1920-30s-era Paris--a romantic time and place evoked in Hemingway's memoir \u003cem\u003eA Moveable Feast\u003c\/em\u003e and Henry Miller's \u003cem\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/em\u003e. From the first meeting of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to their friendship's bitter conclusion; from the courage of the anti-Nazi resistance to the clubs where German generals partied; from the attempted murder of Samuel Beckett to the rise of Josephine Baker to stardom; from the high life of the Coupole and the Cafe du D me to the bawdy music halls of rue de la Gait ; no Paris quarter has witnessed more tumultuous events than Montparnasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a ground-breaking reappraisal of this most glamorous of Paris's districts, Baxter looks beyond the nostalgia to the secret history of Montparnasse, a district where desire effaced memory and every taste could be satisfied--even those which were unexpressed. If, as Oscar Wilde suggested, all good Americans went to Paris when they died, it was Montparnasse that brought them back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaxter, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJohn Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of four acclaimed memoirs about his life in France: \u003cem\u003eThe Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eImmoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWe'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light\u003c\/em\u003e. Baxter, who gives literary walking tours through Paris, is also a film critic and biographer whose subjects have included the directors Fellini, Kubrick, Woody Allen, and most recently, Josef von Sternberg. Born in Australia, he lives with his wife and daughter in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, in the same building Sylvia Beach called home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459913781522,"sku":"9780062679048","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bb2bdcaa-ef4e-4379-a0d7-c9b13b6ad455.jpg?v=1730014770","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/montparnasse-pariss-district-of-memory-and-desire-9780062679048","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}