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Author:

Sciolino, Elaine, author.

Title:

The only street in Paris (large print) : life on the Rue des Martyrs / by Elaine Sciolino.

Edition:

[Large print edition].

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

421 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Sciolino, Elaine--Homes and haunts--Paris.--Paris.
Streets--Paris.--Paris.
Neighborhoods--Paris.--Paris.
Street life--Paris.--Paris.
Americans--Paris--Paris--Biography.
Large type books.
Rue des Martyrs (Paris, France)
Paris (France)--Social life and customs.
Paris (France)--Description and travel.
Paris (France)--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The perfect street -- Searching for home -- Is fish necessary? -- Hidden in plain sight -- Wedding the crowd -- Now, this is butter! -- To catch a mouse -- The meaning of martyrdom -- Some of my favorite ghosts -- The knife sharpener -- Guess who's coming to passover? -- The murdered schoolgirls -- Cheaper than a psychiatrist -- In celebration of books -- The artisan with the golden touch -- Minister of the night -- The dive -- The Flying House of the Virgin Mary -- A street fit for a pope -- Le kale américain est arrivé! -- The resurrection of fish -- Le potluck.

Summary:

The former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she makes readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for a street life that is quickly disappearing.

Series:

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

ISBN:

1410487938
9781410487933

OCLC:

(OCoLC)930257484

LCCN:

2015045451

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)