- Paris, fashion, London, Fiction
Mrs. 'Arris is a middle aged widow, a hardworking London charwoman who after seeing a Christian Dior designer dress in the closet of one of her employers, sets her hearts desire on acquiring a Dior dress of her own. After several years of scrimping and saving, she travels to Paris to realize her dream and during her trip, she learns much about other cultures, human nature and about herself. The UK edition of the book is entitled "Flowers For Mrs. Arris."
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Classical in form, warm, effortless and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Paul Gallico
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 157
- Publisher
- Doubleday, International Polygonics
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781558820210
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Paul William Gallico was born in New York City, the son of an Italian father and an Austria mother who had emigrated to New York in 1895. He graduated from Columbia University in 1919 and became a a sportswriter, sports columnist, and sports editor of the New York Daily News in the 1920s. He became a national celebrity and one of the highest-paid sportswriters in America. In the late 1930s he abandoned sports writing for fiction and found success writing short stories for magazines such as the The Saturday Evening Post. Many of his novels, including The Snow Goose (which won the O. Henry prize for short stories in 1941), are expanded versions of his magazine stories. Over the course of his c
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