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No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute Lauren Elkin

No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute By Lauren Elkin

No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute by Lauren Elkin


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Bestselling author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, joins the crowds commuting by bus in the city of love. Written in iPhone notes and inspired by Perec and Ernaux, this chronicle of the everyday in a year marked by terrorism and her loss of a pregnancy is also a love letter to Paris on the bus.

No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute Summary

No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute by Lauren Elkin

A love letter to Paris written in iPhone notes and in the troubling intimacy of public transport post-Charlie Hebdo attacks, Lauren Elkin's diary of a year on a Parisian bus pays homage to Georges Perec and Annie Ernaux. In this chronicle of the ordinary makings of a city and its people, the author's own body is a threatened vessel; that of the author as a woman as an author as a pregnant woman on the bus.

No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute Reviews

Praise for No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute; 'Lauren Elkin's commuter buses comprise a world where all existential concerns are present - the embodied self, the individual in society, and the bond of casual community. Within this constrained world Elkin observes and dramatizes the morning thumb ballet of checking all the things I check on my phone while confronting all that it means to be human.'- Sarah Manguso; Praise for Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London; 'An uplifting, gender-bending critique of how women negotiate public space' - Deborah Levy, Guardian, Book of the Year; 'a rich, intelligent and lively meander through cultural history, biography, literary criticism, urban topography and memoir' - Lucy Scholes, Observer; 'Flaneuse is not simply a reclaiming of space, but also of a suppressed intellectual and cultural history.' - Financial Times; 'The thoughtful urban stroller Lauren Elkin is a self-appointed heir to Woolf's 'street haunter.' - Gaby Wood, Daily Telegraph; 'An intense meditation on what it means to be a woman and walk out in the world.' - Erica Wagner, New Statesman

About Lauren Elkin

Lauren Elkin is a Franco-American writer and translator. Her last book, Flaneuse: Women Walk the City was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Her translation, with Charlotte Mandell, of Claude Arnaud's biography of Jean Cocteau, won the 2017 French-American Foundation's Translation Prize. Her next book, Art Monsters: on Beauty and Excess, is to be published by Chatto & Windus. She currently lives in London, with her partner and son.

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GOR011818232
9781838014186
1838014187
No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute by Lauren Elkin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Les Fugitives
20210907
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