Notable or Notorious? A Gallery of Parisians

Gordon Wright's gallery of Parisian personalities, Notable or Notorious? is like a series of intimate dinner parties; in a very relaxed and enjoyable fashion the newcomer quickly becomes acquainted with such a variety of people and milieux...Wright sketches deftly with clear and simple lines converging on horizons, his prose displaying a singular lack of clutter...[the lives of ten] people involved in politics, literature, art, the occult, the Wild West, the First World War...Wright's elegant Parisian gallery...breathes life into these people who have been dim shadows around the corners of our minds. Now when we meet them again they will be familiar faces, surfacing amid a crowd of strangers, reassuring landmarks on the journey to understanding, bright ripples carrying light to the edges of the city.Wright, Gordon is the author of 'Notable or Notorious? A Gallery of Parisians' with ISBN 9780674627437 and ISBN 0674627431.