A01=Scott Dominic Carpenter
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amusing travel essays
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cultural observations
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entertaining anecdotes
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everyday Paris
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French and American culture
French way of life
hilarious storytelling
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lovers of Paris and France
Midwestern sensibilities
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travel memoir
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- ISBN 9781609521851
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese! It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted, where even trips to the grocery store lead to adventure.
In French Like Moi, Carpenter guides us through the merry labyrinth of the everyday, one hilarious faux pas after another. Through it all, he keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French (and Midwesterners Midwestern).
Minnesota-born and Midwest-bred, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”) and of This Jealous Earth: Stories. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018), recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and semi-finalist for the Many Voices Project Prize, he has published work in a wide variety of venues, including The Rumpus, Silk Road, Catapult, South Dakota Review, and various anthologies. He lives 45 miles from Minneapolis in Northfield, Minnesota, and Paris.
