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 “Beautifully published and refreshingly original… makes us observe [Paris] in another light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Swapping his local San Francisco for the Town of Sunshine, travel author David Downie came in Paris in 1986 on the one way solution, his mind saturated in romantic thoughts. Attention and the thighs of the cross-country athlete powered him everyday from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret close to the Champs-Elysées for the previous Montmartre places of the condemned artist Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant walkways of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream within the Seine.Downie wound up residing in the stylish Marais area, committed for the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally terminal master and chronicler. Five publications and a quarter century later, he still spends hrs every single day rambling through London, and currently talking about the town he loves.  An irreverent, humorous romp featuring thirty-one brief writing paintings of individuals, places and everyday life, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Sunshine amounts in the exciting to minimal-known edges and figures of the world’s preferred city. Photographs by Alison Harris. “I liked his assortment of documents and anybody who’s visited Paris previously, or ideas to go to as time goes on, is likely to be similarly thrilled as well.” —David Lebovitz, writer of The Sweet Life in Paris “[A] unique, individual, impartial view of the city, its heritage and its people”—Mavis Gallant  “Gives clean graceful insight into the city… a trip into ‘the bends and channels, the jagged sides, the key interiors’ [of Paris].”— Departures