A Sentence for the Ages

Seriously …

He might spend a blessèd day with a bottle of absinthe, oblivious to the sun that fell like a stone, dozing peacefully under the muddled stars in a pool of his own vomit.

That sentence — from page 164 of Graham Robb’s Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris — is hard to beat. And so is the book, which was recommended by one of the most literate of my staff of thousands.

Published by W. W. Norton & Company
[first edition, 2010]

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