The gifted novelist reveals his favorite haunts in this glittering portrait of Paris and its pleasures. "One has the impression, reading The Flaneur, of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn't otherwise see. Edmund White tells such a good story that I'm ready to listen to anything he wants to talk about" -- New York Times Book Review  (FRN259, $12.99)