The long-time New Yorker writer reveals "a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Now in paperback, the bestselling comic-romantic adventures of an American family in Paris is penned by"The New Yorker" writer and author of the magazine's popular "Paris Journal" column. The story is rooted in the sentimental reeducation of a weary American through the experience of his son's childhood in France. A "New York Times" Notable Book of 2000.