Paris Out of Hand A Wayward Guide

by Gordon, Karen Elizabeth; Hodgson, Barbara; Bantock, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780811809696
• ISBN10: 0811809692
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Chronicle Books

Summary

From the author of The Transitive Vampire comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light. This seductively beautiful replica of a nineteenth-century travel book-replete with illustrations of sights you will never see-guides readers through the Paris that is, that might be, and that never was. Amid Parisian locales unheard-of, temptations abound. If your visit to the Cafe Conjugal ends in a spat, you can make up at the luscious and fantastic Museum of Lips and Books. Unhandy glossaries help you talk your way through provocative encounters, with such apropos comments as J'aimerais sortir avec votre hyene pour boire un verre (I'd like to take your hyena out for a drink). A rare and rowdy entertainment, at once a tour of imagined Paris and an artistic tour de force, this captivating traveller's tale dares its readers to embrace their own desires in a Paris one can only wish existed.

Author Biography

Nick Bantock is the author of numerous illustrated novels, including Griffin & Sabine, Sabine's Notebook, The Golden Mean, The Gryphon, and Alexandria, which together spent 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Born in England, he now

Karen Elizabeth Gordon is the fanciful and immensely talented author of The Transitive Vampire and The Well-Tempered Sentence.

Barbara Hodgson is a Vancouver-based writer, photographer, and designer. Her illustrated novels include The Tattooed Map, The Sensualist, and Hippolyte's Island.