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Book Synopsis______________ Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise' - Eileen Battersby,
Irish Times Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Yves Saint-Laurent and other assorted members of the French glitterati? That'd be Inside a Pearl' Scotsman We are lucky to have him still publishing diverting, affectionate and full of tips' - London Evening Standard______________ A literary treat of a memoir, covering Edmund White''s years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s ParisEdmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new cultu
Trade ReviewParis may well be White’s pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White … Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise *
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times *
Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Yves Saint-Laurent and other assorted members of the French glitterati? That’d be
Inside a Pearl *
Scotsman *
There is at once something artfully canny and beguilingly innocent about
Inside a Pearl … You want to hold on to him, will him to live more, live longer and write about more years *
Independent *
We are lucky to have him still publishing … diverting, affectionate as well as bitchy, and full of tips *
London Evening Standard *
In the end, this dazzling memoir isn’t just a love song to a city – a city “so calm” it is “like living inside a pearl” – but profoundly moving elegy to a friend *
Sunday Times *
