ASIN: B004XTJ3CU
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 144
Book 5 of Lawrence's youthful adventures, 1961 and 1962. Accompanied by his German girlfriend, the painter Lilo, Lawrence continues his peripatetic studies in Paris, taking a one-year introduction to French culture for foreigners first, to prepare himself for the degree course. After a few spartan weeks in "Le Nouvel Hôtel" on the Left Bank they find a tiny garret composed of two servant rooms, on the Right Bank far away from the fun of the Latin Quarter and their favourite bistros... At night they hear, in bed, the explosions of the "French Algeria" faction unwilling to turn the old colony over to Arab rule, and coming out of a Latin Quarter cinema Lilo is mistaken for a left-wing demonstrator and clubbed by one of the charging gendarmes... At Easter they hitch-hike to Italy where, in spite of a violent attack of diarrhea, caused by a bad dish of mussels in Paris, Lawrence discovers ...
