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    La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life

    By Elaine Sciolino

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    The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets

    France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to understanding France.

    Seduction plays a crucial role in how the French relate to one another—not just in romantic relationships but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. While sexual repartee and conquest remain at the heart of seduction, for the French seduction has become a philosophy of life, even an ideology, that can confuse outsiders.

    In La Seduction, Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas, analyzing its limits as well as its power. She demystifies the French way of life in an entertaining and personal narrative that carries us from the neighborhood shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland.

    La Seduction will charm you and encourage you to lower your defenses about the French. Pull up a chair and let Elaine Sciolino seduce you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 7, 2011
    ISBN9781429933292
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    La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
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    Elaine Sciolino

    Elaine Sciolino is the author of the award-winning book Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran. She is a Paris correspondent and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, having previously served as the newspaper’s chief diplomatic correspondent and UN bureau chief. In 2010, she was decorated a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. She has also been a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, based in Paris and Rome. She lives in Paris with her husband.

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      Really enjoying this so far. I loved her other book, Persian Mirrors, which is about Iran and much more in-depth, political history journalism. This book is much lighter in tone and style, but still tries to get at "what is this particular culture all about?" in the same way that Persian Mirrors tried to get into the heart and soul of modern Iran.