Fictionalizing a famous Parisian couple in 'Left Bank'.(Book review)

From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) | Date: August 9, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Karen Heller

"Left Bank" by Kate Muir, Viking, 346 pp, $25

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Leave it to the Brits to stick it to the French. In finding the mordant humor in almost anything, especially humor-impaired French intellectuals, the British are peerless. They leave Americans, to say nothing of the French, in the Parisian muck.

In her enchanting and lively novel "Left Bank," Kate Muir, a columnist for the Saturday Times of London and a former French correspondent, has taken on not any Parisian couple but the impossibly photogenic, eminently quotable philosophe/stud ...

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