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Message :	Hi, I wanted to let you know about David Downie's latest book, "Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light," out end-August 2005. You can read excerpts and see photos at <A HREF="http://www.ParisParisTheBook.com">www.ParisParisTheBook.com</A> and can order it from the site or from <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976925109/parispilgrim-20">www.bookpassage.com</A> plus the usual internet and retail booksellers. Here are some blurbs and info: There's a foreword by Diane Johnson, 30 chapters, 30 B&W photographs by Alison Harris, 256 pages Celebrated travel writer Jan Morris calls it, “Perhaps the most evocative American book about Paris since A Movable Feast.” Mavis Gallant (of The New Yorker fame) says, “David Downie lives in Paris, like wine in a glass. Paris, Paris is his quirky, personal, independent view of the city, its history and its people. Residents will recognize a place they can vouch for and not the clichés so frequently conjured up to match the legends. Visitors and newcomers are bound to find Paris, Paris reliable company as they discover the city’s beauties and pleasures and its problems too.” Donald George of Lonely Plant notes: “David Downie’s prose illuminates Paris with unequaled poignancy and passion. He understands and evokes the soul and the substance of the city with a critic’s intelligence and a lover’s heart. He makes me want to live in Paris again.” John Flinn, travel editor of the SF Sunday Chronicle, says, “Downie brilliantly upholds the American expat tradition of portraying the City of Light with an original and endearing touch.” Harriet Welty-Rochefort (author of French Toast and French Fried): “If there is one book I’d read before heading to the City of Light, Paris, Paris is it. Downie, a longtime Paris resident and roamer, writes with knowledge and verve, pinning down the funny and the sublime as he captures on his canvas the quirks, foibles and follies, and the peculiar mystery of the people and places, that make up this wonderful city.” Biographer Anton Gill (Peggy Guggenheim, Il Gigante), thinks “All visitors to Paris who want their eyes opened and their knowledge widened should buy David Downie’s irresistible collection of Paris essays. Take the book with you on walks and be astonished at his sense of detail and place; read it in bed or over a glass of wine in a café, and be introduced to a Paris few know. The text is immaculately complemented by Alison Harris’ beautiful and evocative photographs.” Tell your friends!