The Paris Correspondent: A Novel of Newspapers, Then and Now - Softcover

Cowell, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468300628 ISBN 13: 9781468300628

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2013

Synopsis

The Paris Correspondent is at once a great story and a tribute to journalism, love, and liquor in a turbulent era. Ed Clancy and Joe Shelby are journalists with The Paris Star, an English-language paper based in Paris. Relics from a time when print news was in its heyday, when being a reporter meant watching a city crumble around you as you called in one last dispatch, Clancy and Shelby are taken by surprise by the Internet age. The two friends are faced with the death of what they hold most dear--their careers--and, for Shelby, a woman he cannot bring himself to mention. Written in riveting prose that captures the foreign correspondent's life, The Paris Correspondent is not to be missed. Writing from experience and in homage to Reynold Packard's Dateline Paris, Alan S. Cowell, with his razor- sharp and darkly funny style, will win readers the world over.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan S. Cowell is a journalist. Since 2008 he has been Senior Correspondent for NYTimes.com based in Paris. He is also the author of A Walking Guide and The Terminal Spy: The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko.

Review:

"A portrait of old school newshounds struggling to stay relevant."--The New York Times Book Review

"No one knows the life of a foreign correspondent better than Alan Cowell . . . He makes the mouth water, the eyes tear and the belly shake with laughter." --John Darnton, author of Black and White and Dead All Over

"A stylish, expertly drawn novel." --Kirkus

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1468300628
• ISBN 13: 9781468300628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272