Letters from Paris

Letters from Paris is an epistolary memoir that chronicles the intellectual and emotional life of an American expatriate in Paris. It features a chronicle that is earthy and Rabelaisian as well as reflective and philosophical. It includes portraits of an often bizarre mentalité française; the expatriate's struggle to master his creative form; and contemplations on art, literature, and culture. Meditations on spirituality and mysticism alternate with erotic cameos rendered in a droll,...
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Letters from Paris is an epistolary memoir that chronicles the intellectual and emotional life of an American expatriate in Paris. It features a chronicle that is earthy and Rabelaisian as well as reflective and philosophical. It includes portraits of an often bizarre mentalité française; the expatriate's struggle to master his creative form; and contemplations on art, literature, and culture. Meditations on spirituality and mysticism alternate with erotic cameos rendered in a droll, sophisticated yet vaudevillian manner.