Paris P-I Obituaries: Uncovering The City's Secrets

Exposing the dark side of the city of light, andrew hussey tells the story of paris from the point of view of insurrectionists, vagabonds, immigrants, sexual outsiders, criminals. Hussey amply demonstrates, has always been a city of darkness as well as light. Of course, as in any biography, the promise of secrets is bound to whet an appetite for. In his outrageously readable, impressively researched, shockingly violent alternative history of paris, andrew hussey illuminates the city's gutters, stews, slaughters,.