{"product_id":"2940154612859","title":"Left Bank Right Bank","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeft Bank Right Bank is a kaleidoscopic journal of twenty years in Paris, from 1988 to 2008. During that time the Berlin Wall fell, the European Union was created, mass consumerism arrived in France, and 9\/11 ushered in a new age of growing fear and xenophobia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not deluxe, romantic Paris, but working, immigrant, Paris. The city is cracked open in unexpected ways as the narrator encounters not only Parisians – a chef, a fashion editor, a cutthroat businesswoman – but also a Chinese artist, a Chilean sculptor, an Algerian plumber, a Martiniquais electrician, a Portuguese teenager, a Vietnamese tailor and children from West Africa and the Maghreb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the book:\u003cbr\u003e\"Only Paris is associated with Perfection. You do not aspire to be a Londoner, Roman, a Berliner. You do not have a crush on their fashions, manners and habits. Only Paris inspires yearning, dreaming, a constant search for the city's essence. . .'Paris' is live 'love': you say it in italics, you're proud of it, you think it's a ticket to something, but you don't really know what it is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Janet McMahon's third novel, after Departure and Rosie Ipecac: the Paris Years. She lives in Lyon with her husband, poet George Goode.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Janet McMahon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181470040304,"sku":"2940154612859","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154612859_p0.jpg?v=1764071413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154612859","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}