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- catalog abstract ""Edmund White, one of our most celebrated writers, and the French artist Hubert Sorin offer us a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of their favorite people and places in and around their neighborhood, the run-down heart of Paris called the Chatelet. It is an enchantingly varied world, populated not only by dazzling literati and ultra-chic couturiers and art dealers but also by poetic shopkeepers, grandmotherly prostitutes, and, ever underfoot, an irrepressible basset hound named Fred. The foibles and eccentricities of these sometimes outrageous, always memorable individuals are brought to life with unfailing wit and affection." "Below the surface of this sparkling comedy there is a tragic undercurrent, for while Sorin was completing his work, he was nearing the end of his struggle with AIDS. The book is a tribute to the brave spirit that led the authors to banish the somber and to celebrate the pleasures of their life together, as well as the differences between them."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8659177.
- catalog coverage "4e Arrondissement (Paris, France) Social life and customs Pictorial works.".
- catalog coverage "Paris (France) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Paris (France) Social life and customs Humor.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""Edmund White, one of our most celebrated writers, and the French artist Hubert Sorin offer us a lighthearted, gently satiric portrait of their favorite people and places in and around their neighborhood, the run-down heart of Paris called the Chatelet. It is an enchantingly varied world, populated not only by dazzling literati and ultra-chic couturiers and art dealers but also by poetic shopkeepers, grandmotherly prostitutes, and, ever underfoot, an irrepressible basset hound named Fred. The foibles and eccentricities of these sometimes outrageous, always memorable individuals are brought to life with unfailing wit and affection." "Below the surface of this sparkling comedy there is a tragic undercurrent, for while Sorin was completing his work, he was nearing the end of his struggle with AIDS. The book is a tribute to the brave spirit that led the authors to banish the somber and to celebrate the pleasures of their life together, as well as the differences between them."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xv, 121 :".
- catalog hasFormat "Our Paris.".
- catalog identifier "0679441662".
- catalog isFormatOf "Our Paris.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Our Paris.".
- catalog spatial "4e Arrondissement (Paris, France) Social life and customs Pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "France Paris".
- catalog spatial "France Paris.".
- catalog spatial "Paris (France) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Paris (France) Social life and customs Humor.".
- catalog subject "944/.361 20".
- catalog subject "AIDS (Disease) France Paris.".
- catalog subject "Americans France Paris Biography.".
- catalog subject "Americans France Paris History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "DC752.A04 W48 1995".
- catalog subject "Gay men France Paris Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gay men France Paris Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "Sorin, Hubert Homes and haunts France Paris.".
- catalog subject "Sorin, Hubert, 1940- Homes and haunts France Paris.".
- catalog subject "White, Edmund, 1940- Homes and haunts France Paris.".
- catalog title "Our Paris : sketches from memory / by Edmund White ; with drawings by Hubert Sorin.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".