{"product_id":"love-is-in-the-air-john-baxter-9781940842721","title":"Of Love and Paris: Historic, Romantic and Obsessive Liaisons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe French may not have invented love but they perfected it, and the laboratory in which they did so was Paris. James Joyce called the city \"a lamp for lovers, hung in the wood of the world.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the Middle Ages, Paris has drawn those who wish to experience the limits of love - intellectual, spiritual, carnal. In \u003ci\u003eOf Love and Paris, \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Baxter turns the spotlight on some of them, from the medieval troubadours who seduced court ladies with flowery verse to Man Ray, whose camera conferred immortality on his lover and model Kiki, and Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, who turned their moans of sexual pleasure into music. The \u003ci\u003egrandes horizontales \u003c\/i\u003eof the \u003ci\u003ebelle epoque, \u003c\/i\u003eaccomplished technicians of eroticism who drew the rich and powerful of both sexes to Paris, had their modern incarnation in Gala, who left the bed she shared with poet Paul Éluard and painter Max Ernst to seduce the young Salvador Dalí. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Love in Paris, however, can take unexpected forms. Was the devotion to Marcel Proust of his housekeeper Céleste Albaret any less passionate than that of Anne Desclos to Jean Paulhan, for whom she composed \"the strangest love letter any man ever received\"--the notorious novel \u003ci\u003eStory of O, \u003c\/i\u003ethe predecessor of \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e? Love has a multitude of faces, and some of the most mysterious and surprising are unveiled in \u003ci\u003eOf Love and Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Baxter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940842727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940842721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Museyon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.20w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/17\/2023","brand":"John Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069203673343,"sku":"9781940842721","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1198433b-e6df-4a8a-baf6-4e2b288ce386.jpg?v=1685423400","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-is-in-the-air-john-baxter-9781940842721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}