A Paris Moment

De: Gordon Cope

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

"It's a summer night in Paris. You're standing on a bridge holding the one you love when an accordion player launches into La Vie en Rose. It's magic - the magic of Cope's A Paris Moment." KEN MCGOOGAN, author of Lady Franklin's Revenge."A Paris Moment captures the flavor of Paris in a rich broth of characters and events, piquing the appetite for Cope's tasty tales."JOHN GILCHRIST, travel writer and CBC restaurant critic.Sometimes your wildest dreams come true. When Linda Cope is offered a job in Paris, husband/writer Gord goes along for the ride. They settle into an apartment on the Right Bank of the Seine, in Le Marais, a neighborhood rich in controversy culture and craziness - in short, their kind of place .Gord finds his role in "the cast" of the Marais as a househusband in Paris. He makes his way through struggling with high-school French, sampling all the delicacies of the boulangerie, and making friends with shop owners and street people. Along the way, he records his musings of Le Marais and the people who live there.Here are exuberant vignettes of Paris life - the curse of the Vespa, buying oysters from Breton pirates, discovering Beaujolais Nouveau Day - the odd and fascinating tales that just don't make it into guidebooks. Such is the magic of A Paris Moment.