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Signed Copy of PARIS WAS THE PLACE, by Susan Conley
- Item Number
- 175
- Estimated Value
- 26 USD
- Sold
- 26 USD to susannew1219
- Number of Bids
- 3 - Bid History
Item Description
Author Susan Conley lived in Beijing for close to three years and recently returned to Portland, Maine, with her husband and two sons. Her memoir about their time in China is called The Foremost Good Fortune and was released by Knopf on February 8th, 2011. She is cofounder and former executive director of the Telling Room, a writing workshop and literary hub for the region. Her work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, as well as The Paris Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares and other literary magazines.
She and her publisher offer this signed hardback copy, in English, for this fundraiser.
Reviews from Amazon:
''Paris Was the Place has the kind of emotional weight you hope for in a novel. Its world, by turns achingly beautiful and brutally unjust, is as vividly rendered as its characters, whose joys and struggles we embrace as our own.'' --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author
''Paris Was the Place is a gorgeous love story and a wise, intimate journal of dislocation that examines how far we'll go for the people we love most. I couldn't put it down.'' --Ayelet Waldman, author of Red Hook Road and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
''Paris Was the Place, with its portrait of Paris in the '80s and a narrator whose beloved brother is undone by AIDS, renders viscerally just how the personal becomes the political, and vice-versa: it's beautifully eloquent on the shortfall we so keenly feel between the comfort and support we can offer loved ones and the comprehensive safety we wish we could provide. It reminds us through the openheartedness of its compassion of the infinity of ways in which doing what we can for others might represent the best we can do in terms of saving ourselves.'' --Jim Shepard, author of You Think That's Bad and Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Donated By:
Susan Conley & Alfred A. Knopf
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