
Paris Cafe
The Select Crowd
Noel Riley Fitch(Author)
Soft Skull Press
Published on 1. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-933368-85-6 (ISBN)
Description
Acclaimed author Noël Riley Fitch, abetted by noted artist Rick Tulka, serves the dish on Select, the famous Montparnasse café that for nearly nine decades has been so vital to Paris and its intellectual denizens: from Hemingway, Beauvoir, Picasso, James Baldwin, and George Plimpton to the writers and artists who continue to work quietly there in the back room or heatedly debate every topic imaginable into the night. The artists have their work on the walls; the novelists include the café setting in their fiction. The quiet and drama of the Sélect world illustrates the centrality of cafés — particularly this one — to Parisian social, cultural, and intellectual life. Blending pithy profiles and witty drawings of clientele and staff, the book is organized around a history of the café, its daily and seasonal rhythms, particular colorful patrons, and even its typical café/brasserie food (including a few recipes).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Publishing group
Counterpoint
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933368-85-6 (9781933368856)
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Noel Riley Fitch