News Of Paris Fifteen Years Ago
1947
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2.19
Average Rating
9
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Paris to the Moon is a book of essays by Adam Gopnik. The stories detailed life in Paris, France by a North American transplant and how life is different. They include how the French do not obsess on physical fitness the way American and Canadian yuppies do. Another story, called "The Rookie" details how Gopnik's child, taken to France as a baby, was growing up with no knowledge of baseball and Gopnik's attempt to explain the game to him through stories. This story was later recorded for the public radio program This American Life by Gopnik himself. The poignancy of the piece was lost when Gopnik moved back to the States giving his son the opportunity to actually grow up seeing actual baseball.
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2.19
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Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author · 174 books
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.
