| Paris Hangover Contributor(s): Lobe, Kirsten (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312355688 ISBN-13: 9780312355685 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Klein is a New York fashionista with a great resume, a terrific boyfriend (on paper) and showstopping Tribeca triplex. She has trunk-fulls of fabulous footwear, but not the significant relationship she' d longed for-- no, "expected"-- to have by now. And there' s something else: she' s "fou" (that' s crazy) for France, for French men, for "la vie Francaise," Fleeing her Big Shot boyfriend and bidding "adieu "to it all, Klein starts over in Paris. From a tiny walk-up in the 7th that she had to lie (in broken Franglais) to get, Klein plunges into the mysterious world of Gallic Men: the casually sexy Renaud, a prototypical Frenchman with a flute of Moet and a Galoise always at the read; trying to keep everybody straight when she dates three men named Jean at the same time; and a completely wrong Monsieur Married Aristocrat, who wants Klein for his very well-kept mistress. An American in Paris never had life so good-- Cafe Flore, painting in a garret, afternoons in the Jardins Luxembourg-- or so bad. But Klein isn' t going to get over her passion for France and it' s men anytime soon. PARIS HANGOVER is a funny, fresh novel about trying on a new life for size-- and about "cherching le homme" in the process. " This is a witty mousse, yet it also is unsparing without cruelty, ambitious not vicious, chic without the inevitable creak of a writer trying too hard." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005002211 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.85 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A glamorous fish-out-of-water first novel, Paris Hangover stars Klein, a just-escaped New Yorker with trunk-fulls of fabulous footwear but without the significant relationship she'd really expected and longed to have by now, in her mid-thirties. Fleeing a live-in lover and their sleek Tribeca triplex as well as a career in fashion, Klein stars over in Paris-in a tiny walk-up in the 6th that she had to lie (in broken Franglais) and write a bad check to get, only to discover that, among other things, Parisian apartments don't come with kitchens. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lobe, Kirsten: - Kirsten Lobe is a former fashion designer, and the author of the novels Paris Hangover and French Trysts, and the memoir Paris, Baby!. She has lived in Tokyo, New York, Paris and Lake Geneva, and is now a citizen of the world. |
