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'What does it mean to fulfil a dream long after it seems possible? When Patti Miller arrives to write in Paris for a year, the world glows ‘as if the light that comes after the sun has gone down has spilled gold on everything’.'
'But wasn’t that just romantic illusion? Miller grew up on Wiradjuri land in country Australia where her heart and soul belonged. Mother of grown-up boys with lives of their own, what did she think she would find in Paris that she couldn’t find at home?'
'She turns to French writers, Montaigne, Rousseau, de Beauvoir and other memoirists, each one intent on knowing the self through gazing into the ‘looking glass’ of the great world. They accompany her as she wanders the streets of Paris – they even have coffee together – and they talk about love, suffering, desire, motherhood, truth-telling, memory, the writing journey, how to know who we are in the family and in the cultures that shape us. '
'This story, of a year spent writing and reading in Paris, explores truth and illusion, self-knowledge and identity – and evokes the beauty, the contradictions and the daily life of contemporary Paris.' (Source: Publisher's website)
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Dedication: For Charlie
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also audio disc narrated by Barbara Duncan
Works about this Work
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Review : Ransacking Paris
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , July 2015; (p. 60)
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel -
Paris Mismatch
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 372 2015; (p. 64)
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel -
Review : Ransacking Paris
2015
single work
— Appears in: Good Reading , April 2015;
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel -
I've Always Got Paris
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 April 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel 'Memoirist Patti Miller made good on her promise to herself to spend a year living in her favourite city...' -
Patti Miller : Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends.
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , April 2015;
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel
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Review : Ransacking Paris
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , vol. 94 no. 3 2015; (p. 24)
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel -
Patti Miller : Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends.
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , April 2015;
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel -
I've Always Got Paris
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 April 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel 'Memoirist Patti Miller made good on her promise to herself to spend a year living in her favourite city...' -
Review : Ransacking Paris
2015
single work
— Appears in: Good Reading , April 2015;
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel -
Paris Mismatch
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 372 2015; (p. 64)
— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends 2015 single work novel -
Patti Miller
2015
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 April 2015; (p. 24-25) The Canberra Times , 11 April 2015; (p. 13) The Age , 11 April 2015; (p. 24)