Carolyn S. (cas) - , reviewed on 9/18/2009 + 14 more book reviews

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Thad Carhard is an American living in Paris. Walking his daughter to school, he passes a piano shop every day. He goes in, hoping to buy a piano, and learns, after several visits, that he has to be recommended to the shop by a former customer before they will talk to him. He finds his recommendation, and the rest of the book discusses his new life in music in Paris. The New York Times concluded its review of the book by saying that Carhard describes life in Paris from a French point of view "Like them, in their different ways, he doesn't look at the French; he stands beside them to look in the same direction. What he tries to capture is not the sight of them but what they see." This is truly a lovely book.

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