The Seine: The River that Made Paris

An American Library in Paris "Coups de Coeur" Selection A Los Angeles Times Bestseller

"Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer.É [She] has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light.Ó _Edmund White, New York Times

Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters_a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer_and follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy through Paris and to the sea. The Seine is a vivid, enchanting portrait of the worldÕs most irresistible river.