Paris to the Moon

by Gopnik, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780783893983
• ISBN10: 0783893981
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: G K Hall & Co

Summary

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. It was in part a professional decision -- Gopnik was to take on The New Yorker's "Paris Journals" -- but it was also a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the capital of everything cultural and beautiful. Of course, there was the matter of raising a child and carrying on with everyday life. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik manages to weave the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful book.

Author Biography

Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986, and his work for the magazine has won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He broadcasts regularly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. From 1995 to 2000, Gopnik lived in Paris, where the newspaper Le Monde praised his "witty and Voltairean picture of French life" and the weekly magazine Le Point wrote, "It is impossible to resist delighting in the nuances of his articles, for the details concerning French culture that one discovers even when one is French one-self." He now lives in New York with his wife, Martha Parker, and their two children, Luke and Olivia

Table of Contents

THE WINTER CIRCUS
(An American family arrives in Paris, is greeted by bombs and strikes, and a good time is had by all.)
Paris to the Moon	13	(22)
Private Domain	35	(13)
The Strike	48	(10)
The Winter Circus, Christmas Journal 1	58	(33)
DISTANT ERRORS
(Emigration becomes expiration, confusion reigns, and serenity is sought in the Luxembourg Gardens.)
The Rules of the Sport	91	(11)
The Chill	102	(13)
A Tale of Two Cafes	115	(11)
Distant Errors, Christmas Journal 2	126	(28)
Papon's Paper Trail	154	(24)
Trouble at the Tower	178	(7)
LESSONS FROM THINGS
(Food, fashion, and foibles teach their complicated lessons in the struggle between Administration and Civilization.)
Couture Shock	185	(20)
The Crisis in French Cooking	205	(31)
Barney in Paris	236	(11)
Lessons from Things, Christmas Journal 3	247	(31)
The Rookie	278	(25)
A MACHINE TO DRAW THE WORLD
(Serenity is found in calm and contemplation, and the deep tragedy of history revealed. All chords are sounded and the bells rung in the birth of a new French baby.)
The World Cup, and After	303	(19)
The Balzar Wars	322	(16)
Alice in Paris	338	(20)
A Machine to Draw the World, Christmas Journal 4	358	(25)
A Handful of Cherries	383	(35)
Like a King	418	(22)
Angels Dining at the Ritz	440	(27)
One Last Ride	467