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Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of Provence
Strangers in Paradise A Memoir of Provence Author:Paul Christensen Weaving a fascinating dialogue between the Old World as represented by Provence and the New World of the postmodern American university, this memoir describes in finely wrought detail a poet and critic of literary postmodernism moving his family to France and experiencing village life. Stories of amazing adjustments to a wildly different world a... more »re etched in beautiful prose, reading like a quest novel, a precise travelogue, an intense discourse on the visionary arts, and a rediscovery?if not reinvention?of the self as this contemporary American intellectual finds enlightenment in exile.« less