{"product_id":"montparnasse-pariss-district-of-memory-and-desire","title":"Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Most Beautiful Walk in the World\u003c\/em\u003e, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present delights of the iconic neighborhood that is best associated with the vibrant 1920-30s-era Paris--a romantic time and place evoked in Hemingway's memoir \u003cem\u003eA Moveable Feast\u003c\/em\u003e and Henry Miller's \u003cem\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/em\u003e. From the first meeting of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to their friendship's bitter conclusion; from the courage of the anti-Nazi resistance to the clubs where German generals partied; from the attempted murder of Samuel Beckett to the rise of Josephine Baker to stardom; from the high life of the Coupole and the Cafe du Dôme to the bawdy music halls of rue de la Gaité; no Paris quarter has witnessed more tumultuous events than Montparnasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a ground-breaking reappraisal of this most glamorous of Paris's districts, Baxter looks beyond the nostalgia to the secret history of Montparnasse, a district where desire effaced memory and every taste could be satisfied--even those which were unexpressed. If, as Oscar Wilde suggested, all good Americans went to Paris when they died, it was Montparnasse that brought them back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48003543367869,"sku":"BS-TC0-679048","price":17.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780062679048-HD.jpg?v=1786887090","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/montparnasse-pariss-district-of-memory-and-desire","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}