The Seine: The River that Made Paris

ISBN: 0393358593

Author: Sciolino, Elaine

Condition: New

An American Library in Paris "Coups de Coeur" SelectionA Los Angeles Times Bestseller"Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer. [She] has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light. -Edmund White, New York TimesBlending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters-a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer-and follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy through Paris and to the sea. The Seine is a vivid, enchanting portrait of the worlds most irresistible river.