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Gail Scott

My Paris

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781564782977
  • Weight: 195g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 214mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Oct 2003
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
In My Paris, a Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio. Not a typical tourist, she prefers indoor spaces, seeing Paris go by on TV or watching from her window the ever-changing displays of men's designer clothing across the boulevard. Or she roams the streets, caught between nostalgia and a competing sense of the present day, between Paris's rich cultural traditions and the realities of Western imperialism. Disillusioned by her inability to reconcile these contradictions and by her own part in perpetuating them, she assembles in her journal pieces of the present, past, of art, philosophy, of herself, and of the world outside her.
About Gail Scott

Gail Scott is the author of the novels Main Brides (Coach House), Heroine (Coach House), and My Paris (Dalkey Archive). She has been short-listed twice for the QSPELL (Quebec English-language fiction) award. A former journalist who has worked for Canada's leading newspapers, she is also a founding editor of the Montreal French-language cultural journal Spirale, and the bilingual journal of women's writing, Tessera.