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John Joss

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Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 29 août 2006

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Kate Muir's clever and well written book will in some ways reverse the distaste for bad books about Paris typified by the abominably written and researched Dan Brown 'Da Vinci' mess.

Where Brown mangled the geography and wrote with a baseball bat to the keys, Muir captures the essential terroir with tasteful and witty prose, while creating a marvelous bouillabaisse of characters--Olivier Malin, an uppity French intellectual, his transplanted Texan wife Madison, their 7-year-old daughter Sabine, the Brit-French nanny Anna, the Chechen cook Luiiza and her thuggy comperes, the concierge Madame Canovas . . . they are all well drawn and their interactions entertainingly appropriate, and the story credibly plotted.

Any reader who likes the real (as opposed to the tourist) Paris will find this book charmingly authentic, capturing not just the geography but the essence of the place, conveying Gallic sensibilities through the eyes of one who is obviously and unapologetically a British writer who likes and knows the place and the people (Muir has worked in Paris for the TIMES of London). Muir's satirical edge cuts where necessary, avoiding the easy cheap shots but revealing the curious and fascinating differences between cultures--for example, between the not-quite-French-enough Madison (seemingly modeled on the Connecticut-born actress known as 'Arielle Dombasle') and the all-too-self-consciously charming and preening Olivier (clearly a thin disguise for Dombasle's husband Bernard-Henri Levy or BHL, who is mentioned by the author as a 'fellow philosopher,' perhaps to avoid precisely this comparison).

For Muir, with Viking as her publisher, this is an excellent first novel that despite an uneven middle section sustain's the reader's interest to the end. Her next offering is awaited with interest. She has the chops.

PS Oui, d'accord, 'souffle' should have an 'egu' on the final letter but the resolutely American website doesn't care and won't offer proper accents--my apologies.

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J. Robinson

Left Bank Lust

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 2 janvier 2014

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A perfect exposition of over-the-top French relationships - marriages, mistresses, parents and children, gastrophiles and food. Don't let the fluffy cover fool you; this is a beautifully written yet accessible story that makes you lust for Paris and charcuterie in equal measure.

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Marchissimo

Enjoyable read, more unpredictable than I thought

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 3 novembre 2006

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I really liked this novel: good introspection of the characters moods and personalities. A bit repetitive and patronizing to the reader on the locale: why going on and on to make us understand it takes place in Paris? We know, we can taste it, we love Paris. Over all very visual: it would make a nice movie.

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Galina Peycheva

Great entertaining read

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 25 juillet 2013

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I enjoyed reading Left bank very much. although there are a few cliches - the scorned wife who changes from frosty to cool , the seductress that gets jilted by an incorrigible cheater, the book is cool, fun and very entertaining. I loved reading it and regardless of what I said above I enjoyed it also because of the way the plot turns out. I highly recommend it as a beach read, or a long air flight read.

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sheri

left bank

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 13 novembre 2006

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This book has an entertaining enough story line to hold your attention, but the best reason to read this book is for the descriptions of Paris life.

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