My French Connection, 9780732281762
Paperback
Living and working in Paris and Lyon with her husband Michael, the author navigates local customs, language and baffling social niceties, uncovering a country that is charming, sometimes maddening and more than a little contradictory.

My French Connection

coming to grips with the worlds most beautiful but baffling country

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  • Paperback

    386 pages

  • Release Date

    31 July 2007

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Summary

Coming to grips with the world’s most beautiful but baffling country. In 1988, journalist Sheryle Bagwell went to France seeking an escape from her real life back home. She discovered an unexpected country - one where the popular images of naturally thin women and national arrogance vie with the spread of fast food and crippling self-doubt about France’s place in the world; where hypochondria and the slacker ethic are national obsessions; and where the code of liberte, egalite and fraternite …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780732281762
ISBN-10:0732281768
Author:Sheryle Bagwell
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Imprint:Fourth Estate
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:386
Release Date:31 July 2007
Weight:402g
Dimensions:129mm x 198mm x 28mm
About The Author

Sheryle Bagwell

Award-winning journalist Sheryle Bagwell has worked in print and television in Australia and France for over twenty years. She wrote the ground-breaking ‘Corporate Woman’ column for the Australian Financial Review in the 1990s, and worked as European correspondent for the paper from 1998. In 2003 she moved to Lyon in France where she continues to contribute articles and television reports to a variety of media.

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