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A respected journalist journeys through France, from the mean backstreets of Marseilles to the lush landscapes of Normandy, and comes back with an affectionate and insightful portrait of a country in the midst of profound change
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Richard Bernstein has been a reporter, culture critic, and commentator for more than thirty years. He was a foreign correspondent in Asia and Europe for Time magazine and The New York Times, and was the first Beijing bureau chief for Time. He is the author of many books on Chinese and Asian themes, among them The Coming Conflict with China and Ultimate Journey, the latter of which was a New York Times Best Book of the Year. He is also the author of Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001, which was named by The Boston Globe as one of the seven best books of 2002. He lives in New York.
Although the French are reputed to be supercilious, superior, smug and unfriendly, Bernstein, former New York Times Paris bureau chief, maintains that they are shy and formal, tend to keep their homes gloomy and manage to be pro-American without seeming so. They are also anarchic, devoted to pleasure, elegant but not at all preoccupied with style--dress for them is an insignia, a statement--and don't have better or worse taste than anybody else. Aware of their commonality and "solidarity," yet quarrelsome like a family, they have lost their very goal of national grandeur because of their chronic fragmentation. By the time of the 1986 election, however, when a Socialist president had to name a Conservative prime minister, "an underlying consensus had come to rob French political life of its previous endemic nastiness." This well-rounded portrait of France today is a spirited introduction to a prosperous, complacent, Americanized people whom modernity has "leached out of their particularity." BOMC alternate.
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Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 039458340X
- ISBN 13 9780394583402
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages349
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