Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White

Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund WhiteEdmund 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 culture. White fell passionately in love with Paris, its beauty in the half light and eternal mists; its serenity compared with the New York he had known. Intoxicated and intellectually stimulated by its culture, he became the definitive biographer of

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