“Elaine Sciolino has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light.”—Edmund White,
New York Times
Blending memoir, travelogue, and history,
The Seine
is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime
foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters—a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer—and follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy, through Paris, and to the sea.
is a vivid, enchanting portrait of the world’s most irresistible river.