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Take Me Back to Paris feat. Alex George, author of The Paris Hours

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Meet Alex George, author of The Paris Hours, a tour de force of a novel told over the course of one day in 1927 about four ordinary people whose stories are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.

Highlights:

The genesis of The Paris Hours: Marcel Proust and his maid

How is a writer like a magpie?

Paris in the 1920s: incorporating the tapestry of history into a novel

The roles played in the novel by a panoply of stars, including Josephine Baker, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Hemingway, and more

Reading from The Paris Hours

The Unbound Book Festival

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