- Read the excerpt in GQ
- Order from your local bookstore
- Order from Powell’s
- Order from Amazon
- Order from Barnes & Noble
- Readings and events
GQ’s Best Books of 2012 (“great goddamn prose”)… O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of June… Amazon.com’s Best Books of the Month… Publishers Weekly Top 10 Travel Books Spring 2012… National Public Radio Summer 2012 Recommendations… Kirkus (starred review): “A charming, hilarious account of la vie Parisienne by an observant young American. Great fun and surprisingly touching”… Shelf Awareness (starred review): “Puts a lot of French fantasies to rest—and replaces them with realities worthy of true love”… GQ: “It’s this balance of the city’s dirty deceptions… with the timeless elegance of every boulevard and back-alley bistro that makes the book feel so necessary and welcome”… Boston Globe: ”Baldwin’s portrait of his office life is funny, filmic, and shocking: a Judd Apatow film in the waiting”… Daily Candy: “A guy and his wife move to Paris—yes, it’s been done. But never as funny as Rosecrans Baldwin does it in his new memoir”… The Daily Beast: “The most French book by an American author you’ll ever read”… Atlantic Monthly: “Deftly written, with a wry style and liberally deployed irony… Very funny”… New York Times: “[A snapshot] taken with a high-quality, sharply focused lens”… Slate: “What makes Baldwin’s book particularly enjoyable is that it engages with the clash of our American idea of Paris and Paris the modern reality”… Flavorwire: “You’ve never seen Paris quite like this”… NPR: “A love story about the city and its people”… Interview: “Paints a vibrant new Paris, struggling valiantly to reinvent itself”… Marie-Claire: “A très drole memoir”… The New Republic: “Frequently has a delightfully off-kilter way of capturing the city’s charms”… SFWeekly: “[This book] is about romance, which means it’s also about madness, frustration, comedy, tragedy, and moments of absolute stillness—spaces between scenes that natives know all too well”… ESPN’s Grantland: “Baldwin is the perfect travel companion”… Newsday: “A comical record of elation, anxiety and disillusionment”… The National: “A near-perfect expat memoir”… Huffington Post: “Americans in Paris are a common literary trope, but Rosecrans Baldwin has rejuvenated it….A wryly astute fish-out-of-water memoir”… Wall Street Journal: “For lovers of well-turned phrases”… Library Journal: “A book to tempt anyone flirting with the idea of life abroad”… The Roanoke Times: “Baldwin is a vibrant and keenly observant writer, and this charming diary is both tender and funny”… ArtVoice: “Filled with pocket-sized prose hors d’oeuvre, fine little bits of fioritura that are a real delight to read”… The New York Times T Magazine: “The novelist Rosecrans Baldwin was once all poetic about Paree. It was ‘an umbrella, a dream I carried around in case the weather turned bad.’ But when he finally moves there, cultural pratfalls and office politics turn the city into ‘a melancholy bubble’”… Maine Sunday Telegram: “As he prepares to leave France, Baldwin tries to name the syndrome whereby one is actually in Paris and missing it at the same time. Readers may finish this book with a similar fondness.”
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