{"product_id":"inside-a-pearl-9781408837764","title":"Inside a Pearl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eParis 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' \u003c\/b\u003e- Eileen Battersby, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eEdmund 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 \u003ci\u003eInside a Pearl'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eWe are lucky to have him still publishing  diverting, affectionate  and full of tips' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- London Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eA literary treat of a memoir, covering Edmund White''s years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris\u003c\/b\u003eEdmund 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis 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 * \u003cb\u003eEileen Battersby, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eEdmund 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 \u003ci\u003eInside a Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThere is at once something artfully canny and beguilingly innocent about \u003ci\u003eInside a Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e … You want to hold on to him, will him to live more, live longer and write about more years * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eWe are lucky to have him still publishing … diverting, affectionate as well as bitchy, and full of tips * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019807031639,"sku":"9781408837764","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408837764.jpg?v=1750781319","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inside-a-pearl-9781408837764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}