Half a Lifetime in Paris, and Counting (eBook, ePUB)
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Alice Evleth''s memoir vignettes are snippets of life. But the 55 vignettes broughttogether in this book add up to far more than a collection of snippets. They add upto a memoir of half a lifetime in Paris, and counting. Born in 1935, Alice Evlethmoved permanently with her husband Earl and then-14-year-old daughter Peggy to Parisfrom California in 1974 when Earl snagged a job in France. It gives nothing in thisbook away to tell you that Alice, unwilling to live as "the trailing spouse,"developed her own career in France as a historian specialized in the lives and fateof Jewish doctors during t...
Alice Evleth''s memoir vignettes are snippets of life. But the 55 vignettes broughttogether in this book add up to far more than a collection of snippets. They add upto a memoir of half a lifetime in Paris, and counting. Born in 1935, Alice Evlethmoved permanently with her husband Earl and then-14-year-old daughter Peggy to Parisfrom California in 1974 when Earl snagged a job in France. It gives nothing in thisbook away to tell you that Alice, unwilling to live as "the trailing spouse,"developed her own career in France as a historian specialized in the lives and fateof Jewish doctors during the Second World War. It spoils nothing to tell you thatfor years she and Earl visited an American incarcerated in a French prison on drugcharges. And that for years they were frighteningly stalked by an anonymous man onthe internet. Nor that Alice likes a good croissant, is fascinated by the sight of aflower growing in the crack of a sidewalk, loves dachshunds, and goes beachcombingon the Greek Island of Aegina every year. It gives nothing away to tell you thatEarl died in 2013 and that the irony of being asked to dress a body that would becremated did not escape her. By then, Alice had been living in Paris for half herlife. She still lives in the heart of the city, surrounded by the charms of the 6tharrondissement, with the Luxembourg Garden as her neighborhood park. But don''t lookfor the clichés of Paris in Alice Evleth''s collection of memoir vignettes, for whatsets her work apart is the restrained precision with which she writes about personalincidents and events, whether mundane, unexpected, upsetting or heartbreaking, asshe examines half a lifetime in Paris, and counting. Unlike most other Americanmemoirs involving life abroad, this book doesn''t seek to impress readers with theauthor''s love for or discovery of a foreign place, in this case Paris. Instead, thisbook sets out to truly reveal a personal, singular life lived there. Paris is notAlice''s foreign place; it is her home. This book will appeal to anyone who has livedabroad, whether in Paris or elsewhere, or has ever wondered what it''s like to liveabroad. Paris-lovers will discover a new way of looking at the City of Light. Andanyone interest in writing their memoirs will appreciate the cumulative power ofthis collection of memoir vignettes.
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