Strangers in Paradise

A Memoir of Provence

Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Paul Christensen ISBN: 9781609400811
Publisher: Wings Press Publication: May 28, 2007
Imprint: Wings Press Language: English
Author: Paul Christensen
ISBN: 9781609400811
Publisher: Wings Press
Publication: May 28, 2007
Imprint: Wings Press
Language: English

Weaving a fascinating dialogue between the Old World as represented by Provence and the New World of the postmodern American university, this memoir describes in finely wrought detail a poet and critic of literary postmodernism moving his family to France and experiencing village life. Stories of amazing adjustments to a wildly different world are etched in beautiful prose, reading like a quest novel, a precise travelogue, an intense discourse on the visionary arts, and a rediscovery-if not reinvention-of the self as this contemporary American intellectual finds enlightenment in exile.

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Weaving a fascinating dialogue between the Old World as represented by Provence and the New World of the postmodern American university, this memoir describes in finely wrought detail a poet and critic of literary postmodernism moving his family to France and experiencing village life. Stories of amazing adjustments to a wildly different world are etched in beautiful prose, reading like a quest novel, a precise travelogue, an intense discourse on the visionary arts, and a rediscovery-if not reinvention-of the self as this contemporary American intellectual finds enlightenment in exile.

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