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Parisians
Graham Robb
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Description for Parisians
Paperback. The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller from the award-winning author of The Discovery of France Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 370.
No one knows a city like the people who live there – so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages?
Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again – rather like the city itself, in fact.
For this collection of true stories the City of Paris awarded Graham the Medal of the City of Paris.
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Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330452458
SKU
V9780330452458
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99-50
About Graham Robb
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de ... Read more
Reviews for Parisians
Quirky, amused and très British.
Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending 'A collection of true stories, culled from Robb's insatiable historical reading and lit by his imagination . . . So richly pleasurable that you feel it might emit a warm glow if you left it in a dark room.
John Carey, Book of the ... Read more
Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending 'A collection of true stories, culled from Robb's insatiable historical reading and lit by his imagination . . . So richly pleasurable that you feel it might emit a warm glow if you left it in a dark room.
John Carey, Book of the ... Read more