La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
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France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times , has discovered that seduction is much more. It is the key to understanding France and plays a crucial role not only in how the French fall in love, but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. In La Seduction , Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas of French life, from the shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland. In a new preface written for the paperback edition, Sciolino shows how the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case has thrust France into a searching debate about the future of seduction and the culture of pleasure, which cuts to the heart of France's national identity. In this as in every other aspect of French life, Elaine Sciolino proves herself to be a charming, insightful, and--yes--seductive guide.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1250007445
ISBN13:9781250007445
Release Date:July 2012
Publisher:St. Martins Press-3PL
Length:384 Pages
Weight:0.83 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Terrible
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 6 years ago
I decided I need to give up on this author (as I read the other one of her Paris themed books and it was also awful). La Seduction did not even have a theme and I can't even tell you anything I learned, the book was all over the place and I'm not even sure the author knew what the book was about herself. I wish I could give this book zero stars.
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