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The Paris Stories
Stories of Paris highly praised by Edmund Gosse and Etel Adnan.
115 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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Laird Hunt
41 books528 followersLaird Hunt is an American writer, translator and academic.
Hunt grew up in Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, and London before moving to his grandmother's farm in rural Indiana, where he attended Clinton Central High School. He earned a B.A. from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He also studied French literature at the Sorbonne. Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations while writing his first novel. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver. Hunt lives with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Colorado.
Hunt grew up in Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, and London before moving to his grandmother's farm in rural Indiana, where he attended Clinton Central High School. He earned a B.A. from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He also studied French literature at the Sorbonne. Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations while writing his first novel. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver. Hunt lives with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Colorado.
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July 1, 2012
I stumbled on this site 5 years ago, and sometimes I find books on my "to-read" shelf that I've forgotten why I added it in the first place. I don't know what initially drew me to this book, but I recommend it as a quick read (its 115 are sparsely filled, sometimes one paragraph, many pages are blank.) Good luck finding it though, damn. I have it on loan from Sarah Lawrence College in NY.
The book itself, it is promoted as a love story of a couple in Paris. The telling though is very minimal, details of the couple are hinted at only in small dialogue and description, in letters talking about dreams. I really liked this minimal character, all stories require the reader to fill in some blanks, but it's taken to an apex here.
There are also little absurdities in the book. The dialogue is a bit obtuse but also humorous.
The book itself, it is promoted as a love story of a couple in Paris. The telling though is very minimal, details of the couple are hinted at only in small dialogue and description, in letters talking about dreams. I really liked this minimal character, all stories require the reader to fill in some blanks, but it's taken to an apex here.
There are also little absurdities in the book. The dialogue is a bit obtuse but also humorous.
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