Cocktails in Paris : An Inviting Afternoon of Philosophy and Romance in the City of Lights
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Book Description
Michael Newman's novel Cocktails In Paris is a witty, engaging satire on the café life as lived by six twenty-something foreign students on Paris's left bank. The story takes place during a single afternoon at an outdoor café table. As the erudite but pompous, Oxford-educated Simon and the bright, earnest African-American David spend the afternoon drinking and engaging in a prolonged verbal joust, they are watched by the sweet German girl Katya, who barely says a word. After a while they are joined by the sophisticated Jewish-American Princess sisters Tricia and Julia, whose jaded, worldly comments provide a satiric counterpoint to the boys' semi-pointless argumentation. As the afternoon falls into evening Magnus, a Swedish friend, joins them for the drunken finale.
About the Author
Michael Newman graduated from Beloit College in 1988. After a few years of frustrating government work he set his heart on abandon, and left behind everything to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Returning to the USA upon graduation, he pined for nine years before moving back to Paris with his fiancée, Julia. Loving different cultures, Michael has visited 22 countries. He is fluent in French, has good knowledge of Spanish, and even speaks a little German and Italian.
Cocktails in Paris: An Inviting Afternoon of Philosophy and Romance in the City of Lights,Michael W Newman,iUniverse, Inc.,0595386547,Fiction,Fiction - General,Humorous,Literary,Romance - General,Fiction / Literary
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