My Paris

by Gail Scott

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564782972
• ISBN13: 9781564782977
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Beyond plot

My Paris is the scantest trace of a plotline. Its nothing you are going to lose yourself in, but a book - like Woolf's Orlando - that forces you to pause, consider, and backpedal after each passage. Conceptually, the book begins with the syntax where the present-progressive verb tense complicates time while blurring the distinction between subject and predicate. All in all, the book describes Paris and all that influences a character's impression of it.

By an original and deftly talented novelist

My Paris by Gail Scott is a work of literary fiction about a Canadian woman's time in a Parisian studio. Examining cultural legacy entrenched against the onslaught of globalized mass-media, and written in a staccato style that relies upon long strings of sentence fragments - complete subject-verb sentences are disdained for the power of emotional abbreviations of thought and form - My Paris is memorable and distinguished work, marking Gail Scott as an original and deftly talented novelist.