Flirting with French
How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me & Nearly Broke My Heart
In this charming memoir, a determined Francophile pursues fluency in the language he loves-and we read along to find out if it will ever love him back (Kirkus Reviews).William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. If only he could speak the language. In Flirting with French, Alexander eats, breathes, and sleeps au français. He travels to France, where mistranslations send him bicycling off in all sorts of wrong directions. At an immersion class in Provence where he faces the riddle of masculine breasts, feminine beards, and a turkey cutlet of uncertain gender, he wonders if he should've taken up golf instead.While playi…
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Weitere Autoren: Burke, Diane
- ISBN: 978-1-61620-425-9
- EAN: 9781616204259
- Produktnummer: 32702658
- Verlag: Algonquin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'915 KB
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William Alexander, the author of two critically acclaimed books, lives in New York's Hudson Valley. By day the IT director at a research institute, he made his professional writing debut at the age of fifty-three with a national bestseller about gardening, The $64 Tomato. His second book, 52 Loaves, chronicled his quest to bake the perfect loaf of bread, a journey that took him to such far-flung places as a communal oven in Morocco and an abbey in France, as well as into his own backyard to grow, thresh, and winnow wheat. The Boston Globe called Alexander wildly entertaining, the New York Times raved that his timing and his delivery are flawless, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune observed that the world would be a less interesting place without the William Alexanders who walk among us. A 2006 Quill Book Awards finalist, Alexander won a Bert Greene Award from the IACP for his article on bread, published in Saveur magazine. A passion bordering on obsession unifies all his writing. He has appeared on NPR's Morning Edition and at the National Book Festival in Washington DC and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times op-ed pages, where he has opined on such issues as the Christmas tree threatening to ignite his living room and the difficulties of being organic. Now, in Flirting with French, he turns his considerable writing talents to his perhaps less considerable skills: becoming fluent in the beautiful but maddeningly illogical French language.
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