A Waiter in Paris A Waiter in Paris

A Waiter in Paris

Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

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Publisher Description

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light. 

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 beneath 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. Your colleagues—including thieves, narcissists, ex-soldiers, immigrants, wannabe actors, and drug dealers—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 center of the universe, and there's nowhere else you'd rather be in the world.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2022
August 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pegasus Books
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
3.6
MB
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