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A Year In The Merde

by Stephen Clarke
language: english
Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD, April of 2005 ‧
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Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job – and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs’ droppings.
They don’t wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after pétanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories. In his first novel, Stephen Clarke gives a laugh-out-loud account of the pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France. Less quaint than A Year in Provence, less chocolatey than Chocolat, A Year in the Merde will tell you how to get served by the grumpiest Parisian waiter; how to make perfect vinaigrette every time; how to make amour – not war; and how not to buy a house in the French countryside.

The year does not begin in January. Every French person knows that. Only awkward English-speakers think it starts in January.

The year really begins on the first Monday of September.

This is when Parisians get back to their desks after their month-long holiday and begin working out where they'll go for the mid-term break in November.

It's also when every French project, from a new hairdo to a nuclear power station, gets under way, which is why, at 9am on the first Monday of September, I was standing a hundred yards from the Champs-Élysées watching people kissing.

My good friend Chris told me not to come to France. Great lifestyle, he said, great food, and totally un-politically correct women with great underwear.

But, he warned me, the French are hell to live with. He worked in the London office of a French bank for three years.

"They made all us Brits redundant the day after the French football team got knocked out of the World Cup. No way was that a coincidence," he told me.

The year does not begin in January. Every French person knows that. Only awkward English-speakers think it starts in January.

The year really begins on the first Monday of September.

This is when Parisians get back to their desks after their month-long holiday and begin working out where they'll go for the mid-term break in November.

It's also when every French project, from a new hairdo to a nuclear power station, gets under way, which is why, at 9am on the first Monday of September, I was standing a hundred yards from the Champs-Élysées watching people kissing.

My good friend Chris told me not to come to France. Great lifestyle, he said, great food, and totally un-politically correct women with great underwear.

But, he warned me, the French are hell to live with. He worked in the London office of a French bank for three years.

"They made all us Brits redundant the day after the French football team got knocked out of the World Cup. No way was that a coincidence," he told me.

A Year In The Merde

by Stephen Clarke

Property Description
ISBN: 9780552772969
Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD
Release Date: April of 2005
Language: English
Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 384
Format: Book
Collection: Paul West
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780552772969
Recommended Minimum Age: Not applicable

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephen Clarke

Stephen Clarke é um jornalista inglês que vive há cerca de dez anos em França. O seu primeiro livro, A Year in The Merde - Um Ano em França, foi publicado numa edição de autor em 2004, mas a contagiante aceitação que teve junto do público catapultou-o para as livrarias de dezasseis países.

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