- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Ecco; 1 edition (May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060085924
- ISBN-13: 978-0060085926
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #29 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Speciality Travel > Gay & Lesbian
- #44 in Books > Biography > Social & Health Issues > HIV & AIDS
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Edmund White and Hubert Sorin's brief book is a delight from start to finish. You get everything you want from White's words as you instantly drawn into a two lives you don't want to leave. His portraits of the characters that inhabit and pass through thier lives take you to right into 'Our Paris', these are friends you haven't yet met. The introduction is moving and the last pages jolt you into realising you want more. It would be a great introduction to Edmund White's world if you don't already know it and the introduction here of Hubert Sorin is a terrific bonus.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Grand Deception
9 May 2000
Format:Hardcover
I love deceptive books.
Example: _Our Paris_, by Edmund White and Hubert Sorin, is ostensibly a series of short essays, written and illustrated in a fairly direct style, pertaining to life in the city. But in a stunning, disarming preface, White alerts us to the real subtext: his partner's slow death from AIDS. It's this subtext that transforms the book from a pleasant travelogue to a devastating account of loss.
Lurking beneath the book's shimmering surfaces, and within its numerous lacunae, is the emotional life of a couple threatened by the fast-approaching specter of death. An attentive reading of White's text and Hubert Sorin's illustrations reveals the mauvaise foi, the daily negotiations, the implicit contract of domestic denial that enables an endangered couple to keep death at bay for just a little longer.
_Our Paris_ looks slight, as if it were merely a pleasant evening's worth of travel anecdotes and gossip. But if you take yourself into this book's confidence, it will reveal unexpected secrets.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Parisian anecdotes told with American-style intimacy
29 Jan 2003
Format:Hardcover
I picked up this little book for a return flight from Paris to LA. It looked like perfect plane reading -- short, gossipy, topical. And although it lived up to each of those expectations, the devastation implicit in the book (and explicit at the end) hit hard. The book is not easily forgettable -- and probably no less memorable for the passengers and crew of American Airlines flight 45 who watched me become a sniffling, tear-stained disaster.
It's very intimate, shockingly un-French. White and Sorin invite you into their lives. You feel as if you're at a dinner party listening to them recount(even bicker a little about) their recent mundane adventures. But this intimacy also means that you feel very close to the heartbreaking loss that is the real subject of the book.
It's a beautiful, touching book. The illustrations complement the text (or the text complements the illustrations) perfectly. But if you want to avoid the mess entirely, try The Flaneur.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Paris, the French, love, and travel -- and eventual loss.
19 Jan 1998
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a sweet collection of short pieces, quirky and personal, about a tiny Parisian neighborhood, Paris itself, the French, lots of friends, and a great dog named Fred. Most of all: about Edmund White and his lover Hubert Sorin. Economical yet enjoyably gossipy, kind-hearted, opinionated, informative. Achingly sad, though, because Hubert is dying of AIDS, and in fact does die at the book's end. Definitely worth reading -- especially for fans of Edmund White. Engagingly illustrated by Sorin, who was trained in architecture and took up drawing when he became ill.
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