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A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris . . . What makes this book especially appealing is that it teems with private discoveries made public. It is good to read a refreshing un-journalistic take on the paradoxes of Paris . . . White finds France in the details he unearths -- Stuart Jeffries * GUARDIAN * White's genius as a flâneur is revealed in his affinity for unexpected pleasures, and he includes many for our delectation, from his encounters with present-day royalists to Colette's one-time antidote for food poisoning: a stuffed cabbage and a currant tart * NEW YORKER * A celebration of the diversity and freedom of big-city life … First published in 2001, Edmund White’s evocative paean to the city he lived in from 1983 to 1998 remains a delight … For White, “Paris lives in the details” -- P. D. James * GUARDIAN * Impersonating the flâneur allows White to throw away the guidebooks and wander through Paris and its cultures with a poet’s eye . . . One has the impression of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn't otherwise see * NEW YORK TIMES * White assumes the identity of a flâneur . . . a dandyish quality which suits him well. His style is gracious and the good bits are so delicious one is left wanting more * SUNDAY TIMES * A very good and beautifully written short study of Paris, one that every prospective visitor, and indeed, every old Paris hand, should have in his or her suitcase * INDEPENDENT * His Pairs is a resident's, not a tourist's; that is one of the charms of this little book. He gives you a Paris that the guidebooks don't. A delight . . . No one who loves Paris should neglect it * LITERARY REVIEW * Steeped in philosophical observation, White’s nonchalant tour traces a course through this quintessentially walker’s city . . . investing the areas he comes across with the haunting resonance of his own solitary imaginings * DAILY EXPRESS * The vision of Paris he conjures up in this handsome little book is a highly personal one, free of nostalgia, and up-to-the-minute * SPECTATOR * Full of dark diversions and delightful French fancies. Intimate and idiosyncratic . . . A thought-provoking antidote to the practicalities of the average travel guide. White has a sharp sense of humour and one of the aspects which make this book so enjoyable to read is the wealth of anecdotal information * SCOTSMAN * White looks in at an outsider’s city . . . Full of quirky information about the capital, it celebrates the activity of strolling idly through the city * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *

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Edmund White (1940–2025) authored more than thirty works of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction, including the novels A Boy’s Own Story, Our Young Man and The Humble Lover; the memoirs City Boy, Inside a Pearl and The Unpunished Vice; The Flâneur, a tour through Paris; the literary biographies Genet and Rimbaud; and many more. His most recent work, the sexual autobiography The Loves of My Life, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.

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