A Waiter in Paris

Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

A Waiter in Paris
Edward Chisholm
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h234 x 153mm - 384pg
26 May 2022 UK
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9781800960190
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A waiter' s job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door. . . is hell. Edward Chisholm' s spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you' re fighting your colleagues for tips. Colleagues - including thieves, narcissists, ex-Legionnaires, paperless immigrants, wannabe actors and drug dealers - who are the closest thing to family that you' ve got. It' s physically demanding, frequently humiliating and incredibly competitive. But it doesn' t matter because you' re in Paris, the centre of the universe, and there' s nowhere else you' d rather be in the world.
Edward Chisholm was born in Dorset, England, and moved to Paris in 2012 after graduating from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. A resident there for seven years, Chisholm spent the first four of them working all manner of low-paid jobs, from waiting and bar work to museum security and market hand, while trying to build a career as a writer. Now, Chisholm makes a living as a copywriter/pen for hire, with ambitions of writing novels. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian and the Financial Times magazine.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781800960190
Published: 26 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Monoray
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 384

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