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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
John Baxter
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Paperback, 298 pages; 2011
$14.99
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[M]aybe my experiences of a year of walking in Paris will suggest how and where you might start to find the succession of arrivals and departures that leaves one with memories that can never be erased, the moments one recounts all one's life, prefaced by the words, "I remember…once…in Paris…"
Walk with me.
Expatriate John Baxter's love for Paris shines through on every page of this evocative, endearing, and utterly enchanting memoir. Recounting a year in which he was unexpectedly thrust into a professional position of "literary tour guide," Baxter offers the reader a uniquely insightful and wittily enjoyable armchair promenade through the history of the City of Light, with an intriguing focus on the favorite haunts of such notable Parisian residents as Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. Amusing anecdotes from Baxter's own experiences in the city add humor and levity to this beautiful tribute.
(AG)
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