{"product_id":"2940169547634","title":"Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eSwapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Élysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens, and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places, and daily life, \u003ci\u003eParis, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis: Journey into the City of Light\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world¿s favorite city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099703918832,"sku":"2940169547634","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169547634_p0.jpg?v=1769896408","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169547634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}