Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide - European Travel Books

Hardcover - 01 August, 1996 - Chronicle Books
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By: Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson and Nick Bantock
ISBN: 0811809692

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Seductive, surreal and humourous

This imaginary guide to Paris is full of surreal imagination that will just make you smile. Helpfully divided up into sections on hotels, restaurants, the nightlife, sights, etc., you'll read about places and services you've never dreamed of! What a shame, they don't really exist! Peppered thoughout the text are helpful French expressions translated into English such as "Do you have a ladder so I can reach your airmail clerk suspended from the ceiling?" You can read some guest comments for the hotels which of course, are also bizarre, and learn about special services such as a kidnapping service or a food tasting service (so you don't get poisoned). The book has some quotes from real people too and the lavish artwork gives it an other worldly feel. It will transport you immediately to a wonderful alternative reality Paris.

lovely book

Lovely useless french phrases that just beg you to use them.
"there is a frog in my bidet". How great is that.

Superb imagination. On both the behalf of the writer and the illustrator.

Beautiful, Intriguing. . .

This book is a georgous book, from its looks (plush cover, ribbon bookmark, illustrations) to its content. It describes a slew of fictional places (and a few non-fictional) creating a surrealistic, dreamlike landscape. As nice as it is, this isn't a sit down and read sort of book, more of a coffee table type, wonderful to flip through and see what you find.

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