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I'll Always Have Paris

by Art Buchwald · 1996

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"ART BUCHWALD DOES IT AGAIN. . . . A GREAT READ."

—Larry King, USA Today

In 1948, an American innocent named Art Buchwald set sail for Paris, France, determined to crash Hemingway's moveable feast and make himself famous. What's more, he did it.

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Now he remembers those golden years—when he wrote for the Paris Herald Tribune, fell in love, spoofed Hemingway, dined with gangsters, and crashed costume balls in Venice. Everything that has made Buchwald one of the world's best-loved writers is in this funny, enchanting, poignant book.

"HONEST AND MOVING . . . A CONSUMMATE STORYTELLER."

—The New York Times Book Review

"ROLLICKING . . . The book gallops and gambols along. . . . Buchwald is a master of the anecdote."

—The Baltimore Sun

Subject
traveltravelMore like thisLess of this
Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisParisParisMore like thisLess of thisFranceFranceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 260 pages

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