______________ ‘Paris may well be White’s pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White … Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise’ - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times ‘Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Yves Saint-Laurent and other assorted members of the French glitterati? That’d be Inside a Pearl’ – Scotsman ‘We are lucky to have him still publishing … diverting, affectionate … and full of tips’ - London Evening Standard ______________ A literary treat of a memoir, covering Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris Edmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Paris, its beauty in
