Finding Fontainebleau
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Finding Fontainebleau

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  • TitelFinding Fontainebleau
  • VerlagRandom House N.Y.
  • EinbandartSoftcover
  • Seiten304
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Produktebeschrieb

Finding Fontainebleau

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the French Heritage Literary Award

A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s France from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

"Like the castle, [Carhart's] memoir imaginatively and smoothly integrates multiple influences, styles and whims."-The New York Times

For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town and the time with his family as expats left such an impression on him that thirty years later Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children. Touring Fontainebleau again as an adult, he began to appreciate its influence on French style, taste, art, and architecture. Each trip to Fontainebleau introduces him to entirely new aspects of the château's history, enriching his memories and leading him to Patrick Ponsot, the head of the château's restoration, who becomes Carhart's guide to the hidden Fontainebleau. What emerges is an intimate chronicle of a time and place few have experienced. In warm, precise prose, Carhart reconstructs the wonders of his childhood as an American in postwar France, attending French schools with his brothers and sisters. His firsthand account brings to life nothing less than France in the 1950s, from the parks and museums of Paris to the rigors of French schooling to the vast château of Fontainebleau and its village, built, piece by piece, over many centuries. Finding Fontainebleau is for those captivated by the French way of life, for armchair travelers, and for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a place they want to visit over and over again.


Titel & Produktsprache

TitelFinding Fontainebleau
UntertitelAn American Boy in France
SpracheEnglisch
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Titel & Produktsprache

TitelFinding Fontainebleau
UntertitelAn American Boy in France
SpracheEnglisch

Autoren & Verlag

Autor/-inThad Carhart
VerlagRandom House N.Y.

Auflage & Publikationsort

Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum16.05.2017

Buch Eigenschaften

EinbandartSoftcover
Seiten304
ThemenbereichRoman

Produktdimensionen

Gewicht0.25 kg
Höhe203.2 mm
Breite134.9 und 137 mm
Dicke22 mm

ISBN

ISBN978-0-14-310928-0

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