Suzy Gershman (1948–2012)
Autor(a) de C'est la vie : an American woman begins a new life in Paris and-- voila!-- becomes almost French
About the Author
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Séries
Obras de Suzy Gershman
C'est la vie : an American woman begins a new life in Paris and-- voila!-- becomes almost French (2004) 278 cópias
Frommer's Suzy Gershman's Where to Buy the Best of Everything: The Outspoken Guide for World Travelers and… (2008) 9 cópias
Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop San Francisco: The Ultimate Guide for Travelers Who Love to Shop (2005) 5 cópias
Born to shop Carribean ports of call 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Gershman, Suzy
- Outros nomes
- Kalter, Suzy (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1948-04-13
- Data de falecimento
- 2012-07-25
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Syracuse, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer
- Locais de residência
- Paris, France
San Antonio, Texas, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- University of Texas (BA|Russian History and Language|1969)
- Ocupação
- journalist
writer
memoirist
television personality
travel writer - Relacionamentos
- Gershman, Michael (husband)
- Organizações
- People
- Pequena biografia
- Suzy Gershman, née Kalter, was born to Gloria and Dr. S.S. Kalter in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She received a bachelor's degree in Russian history and language from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969, while working for the San Antonio Express-News. She was a Mademoiselle guest editor and a runner-up in the Vogue Prix de Paris. In 1970, she moved to New York City. There she worked in advertising and public relations. She married writer Michael Gershman in 1975 and the couple moved to Los Angeles. She worked for People Magazine and began appearing on radio and television talk shows during the 1980s. In 1986, she began publishing the first of her Born To Shop travel guides, which were translated into half a dozen languages and sold more than four million copies worldwide. She wrote travel and shopping columns for Travel & Leisure Magazine and Travel Holiday and a regular column for Conde Nast France called Postcard. She also contributed articles to national newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
Suzy moved to Paris following the death of her husband in 2000. In 2004, she published a bestselling memoir about her experience during the first year of widowhood, entitled C'est la Vie.
Her last shopping guide, Where to Buy the Best of Everything, was published in 2008.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 22
- Membros
- 597
- Popularidade
- #42,085
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Resenhas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 95
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 1
As the book progressed and the chapters got longer and less healfhearted Ms. Gershman's personality began to come through and I began to see something in her that was more than a woman spending away her husband's life insurance money. I could see a practical woman having a hard time but determined to not fall apart, a woman rediscovering and reinventing herself, following her dream and doing it in a foreign country and in a foreign language at that. I liked her spunk and that she had standards and an unfailing sense of humor. I enjoyed her stories about holidays, cooking French deserts for the first time, making new friends and dealing with the internal conflict of nurturing herself and worrying about her son's reaction to her choices. These were real stories and I preferred them to the tales about buying overpriced designer sheets.
This isn't your typical book about starting over in France with the author struggling to make connections outside of the expatriate community or being unreservedly enamored with the French. Ms. Gershman arrived in Paris with a well-established network already in place, she had money, and her lack of fascination with Parisian style is obvious and refreshing. She is unabashedly American and is not trying to blend in. She speaks frankly and in detail about the charm of having an affair and her disenchantment with it, as well as medical issues and the difficulties of navigating the French bureaucratic systems. There is not a gossipy feel like in All You Need to be Impossibly French or the reserved distance like in Entre Nous. It is actually more like Almost French in that the authors see the good and the bad clearly and appreciate France for what it is. I wonder whether these two ladies know each other - they are both freelance journalists and they arrived in Paris at the same time (imagine my surprise when I realized this).
This is a fun book and had the first half been more like the second I would have enjoyed it much more. As it is I would recommend it to those who is moving to Paris or is entertaining the notion, those enjoy shopping, or those who want to see what it's like to live in France. I'm with the last group and some day soon will continue the vicarious adventure.… (mais)