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Self-published in France, and a subsequent bestseller, the hilarious story of a year in the life of a young Englishman abroad.Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job – and finds out what the French are really like.They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings.
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Comic, contemporary, warm and effortless.
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- warmbleak
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About the book
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Piper, Black Swan, Bloomsbury
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, German, Portuguese, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780552153072
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