Paris Trance (30 page)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The text contains the following samples from
Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises)
by Ernest Hemingway:
‘There were lighted bars and late open shops on each side of the street.’ | |
‘a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands’ | |
Alex’s ‘glass was empty.’ | |
‘A man and a [woman] passed. They were walking with their arms around each other.’ | |
‘Across the river were the broken walls of old houses that were being torn down.’ | |
‘the music hit you as you went in’ | |
‘Lavigne’s was closed tight, and they were stacking the tables outside [. . .] Lilas.’ | |
‘It was amazing champagne.’ | |
‘It was raining hard outside.’ | |
‘He took a big gulp of coffee’ |
These lines were quoted from the following sources:
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‘a force of . . . long nights.’: John Cheever, | |
‘Happiness . . . they lead.’: slightly misquoted from Camus, |
Although this book is dedicated to two friends, I would also like to share it with Tim, Hania, Charlie, Rupert, and Ollie Gross. And Valeria, of course.
I would also like to thank Alexandra Pringle and Richard Beswick for their persistence, Antonia Hodgson for overseeing the manuscript’s progress, patiently and scrupulously, and Ethan Nosowsky for much-valued trans-Atlantic advice and friendship.