ASIN: B01BH9B8ZI
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 291
After getting off to a false start in Provence, Lawrence finds a goodly measure of success in Paris. While his mother lives in a tiny attic "among the pigeons" on the Left Bank, Lawrence stays in a nearby hotel, where he befriends the two night porters who are political refugees from Chile and Brazil, and eats in the "fixed price" bistros of the Latin Quarter. His old friends, Yves the novelist and Emil the "black" American photographer reappear, and although both have fallen on hard times, each has touching tales to tell of what they've done in the intervening decades… Meanwhile, back in Provence, Lawrence's ambiguous relationship with Séraphine, the silk screen artist who took him in when he was almost "down and out", forces him to see the much older and even more ambiguous relationship with his mother in a glaring new light. In Paris, Lawrence befriends Monique, a "self-made woman ...
