Word: loving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is there left to say about love? Author Ellen Marsh seemingly says little in Unarmed in Paradise and yet has managed to say it all. The story is perhaps more spectacular because it happens in Paris, but anyone, however homebound, will feel the glow, the pain and the misery as surely as Author Marsh's lovers feel it in the city where it is presumed to be a byproduct of traveler's checks...
...sensitive, so vulnerable that the plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...
Unarmed in Paradise is written with rare grace and honesty. It is one of the best love stories to come along in many a year...
Once an assistant editor of Architectural Review, Betjeman has a rare knowledge and love of English places that is even more famed in Britain than his poetry. To keep his island from becoming "a right little, tight little clinic," he is constantly embroiled in some passionate public campaign -to subdue TV aerials, to save ancient towing canals or musty little churches. He writes glowing guidebooks, and he has so cleaned up the despised name of Victorian Gothic architecture that some of his readers are able to look even on London's Stygian train terminals with a kindly...
...Seesaw. A couple of emotional straphangers on a Manhattan shuttle train, rattling back and forth between love and neurotic despair. Uneven, but touching and amusing...