Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

by Edmund White

Book Overview

When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take a teaching position in the U.S., he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and in his work as a journalist,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608195821
• ISBN13: 9781608195824
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.5"