Category - Non Fiction / Travel
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 7 months ago
Views - 10
Ships From - Delaware
Est. Publication Date - May 1992
Seller Description
There is a Paris that most tourists never see, and those who actually enter, may never escape. It is a city of uprooted peasants and Brazilian transvestites, of Arab assassins, and Tanzanian concierges. It is, in short, the Paris that Lawrence Osborne navigates with sure-footed brilliance in this burnished and subversive guide. The stops in Paris Dreambook include a voodoo temple on the Boulevard de Clichy, the steam-wreathed inner sanctum of a Turkish bath, the great erotic diorama of the Rue St. Denis, an apartment belonging to the ancient veteran of an S & M brothel that once served the blonde conquerors of the German occupation. Each of them has a history that is a microcosm of the city, a future, that hints at the cities on approaching transformation, into the worlds most swollen Disneyland. Sinister, titillating corrosively funny. This is Travel Writer at its most soaringly imaginative. By
Additional Information
Paris Dreambook: An Unconventional Guide to the Splendor and Squalor of the City
ISBN: 9780679737759
Publisher Description
A guide to the unseen side of Paris describes the metro, St. Denis, the red-light district of the Boulevard de Clichy, Turkish baths, and other unconventional points of interest
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