Monsieur mediocre : one American learns the high art of being everyday French
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Published
New York : Viking, 2019.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
818.609 SOTHE
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818.609 SOTHE
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818.609 SOTHE
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818.609 SOTHE
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Central - Adult Nonfiction | 818.609 SOTHE | Available |
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Published
New York : Viking, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home. --from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sothen, J. v. (2019). Monsieur mediocre: one American learns the high art of being everyday French . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sothen, John von. 2019. Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sothen, John von. Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French Viking, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sothen, John von. Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French Viking, 2019.
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