Luc Sante
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"--
"A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside--one populated by...
3) The seventh
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 7
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The seventh book in the Parker series, this describes the aftermath of a brilliant heist at a college football game.
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 9
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Parker makes the mistake of letting an amateur in on the score, and one of them is a pretty woman named Claire.
5) The Bowery
Publisher
Films We Like
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A short ten-minute movie about the Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan. A street known for its derelict past.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Paris Vagabond is an unclassifiable masterpiece, a book that purports to be a novel but, accompanied as it is by the photographs of Patrice Molinard, is as much a brilliant documentary as a work of the imagination. In rich prose, suffused with the language of the street, and brilliantly rendered in English by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Jean-Paul Clebert captures the essence of a long-gone Paris of the poor, the criminal, and the outcast: a society of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suspicious of the death, she investigates to see if conspiracy was involved.
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