- Gebundene Ausgabe: 160 Seiten
- Verlag: Chronicle Books (1. August 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0811809692
- ISBN-13: 978-0811809696
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 18,6 x 13,4 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 502.667 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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To the immortal health of Karen Elizabeth Gordon's "Paris Out of Hand, " the most entertaining nonfiction book I've read all year. Her delirium of prose stands out among the year's best fiction, too. . . The book -- cartwheeling over so many issues of design, color, art history, stand-up comedy and performance art that I must remind myself that it is a lo-and-behold book -- provides a mischievous, faux travelogue of a brightly imagined Paris. "Paris Out of Hand" is told and sung through fiction, fakery and the bold interplay of words and images. . . . Everything in her City by the Seine is surreal, magical, and possible: At the Hotel Helias, "Paris' answer to the Heartbreak Hotel," handkerchiefs are handed out with room keys; and chocolate, because of it's euphoric and erotic properties is strictly forbidden.
The sustained performance is one of grins and asides, in which the allusions to France, literature, the artists of the old Left Bank, come in buckets; one can sip and dip at leisure.
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From the author of The Transitive Vampire, comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book—replete with illustrations of sights you will never see and maps that may plummet you into a different era—guides readers through the Paris that is, that might be, and that never was. Amid the Parisian locales you know and love, unheard-of temptations abound. If your visit to the Cafe Conjugal ends in a spat, you can make up at the luscious and fantastic Museum of Lips and Books. From the disconcerting Brasserie Loplop, steal your chair for the Cinema Pont Neuf, whose movies flow onto the Seine. Your curiosity sated for the day, check into Hotel des Etrangers, where phantoms change the sheets and your room in the middle of the night. Unhandy glossaries help you talk your way through these provocative encounters, with such apropos comments as J'aimerais sortir avec votre hyene pour boire un verre (I'd like to take your hyena out for a drink). A rare and rowdy entertainment that dares its readers to explore a Paris one can only wish existed.
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Paris through the Looking Glass is the only way I can describe this book. It is set up exactly like any tourist guide book, and it took me a few pages to catch on that this book has nothing to do with the real Paris. The general style of the humor is reminiscent of Edward Gorey, but it is original, and not a Gorey knock-off. I liked it better than Gorey, although like Gorey, it cloyed just a smidgen toward the end. Also just slightly reminiscent of the more fanciful "Sylvia" cartoons. Great fun, though, and I laughed out loud all the way through. A great gift for anyone who spends more time down the rabbit hole than in the real world.
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Curiously, my local bookshop stocks this wonderful book in the "Travel" section. From the cover with the inverted Eiffel Tower to the hilarious "hotel features" icons, even the least adventurous armchair traveller can deduce that this is indeed a unique tourist guide. It is a guide of sorts: taking the Parisians on at their own game it transforms a city known for its absurdities into a whimsical looking-glass world where nothing is as it seems. Bantock's incredible illustrations and the feast of found images adorn the author's intoxicating prose. She lets us peek at the acidic comments written in the guestbooks of fictional hotels. Her cafes reek of gitanes and hallucinogenic pseudo-reality. Paris Out of Hand is a one-off classic, and my only complaint is that the type fades far too quickly from the cover with the inevitable constant handling. I've bought several copies and given them all away as gifts. Now I'm getting one for myself.
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What an unusual way to spend a day, month, or maybe just an hour at one of the many strange & somewhatout of this world cafe's & hotels. You would think that maybe that wrong turn you took ended up being on another planet besides earth, so what ! these places are so much fun & entertaining than why worry if a person is on some other solar system ! The characters & places are never boring, I can say that I was entertained through out this entire book. I would recommend it to anyone
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