Seine

An American Library in Paris "e;Coups de Coeur"e; SelectionA Los Angeles Times Bestseller"e;Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer. [She] has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light. Edmund White, New York TimesBlending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively charactersa bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographerand follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy through Paris and to the sea. The Seine is a vivid, enchanting portrait of the worlds most irresistible river.