My Life in France
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My Life in France | |
Author | Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Autobiography |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 2006 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 317 pp (Knopf hardcover edition) |
ISBN | ISBN 1-4000-4346-8 (Knopf hardcover edition) |
My Life in France is a 2006 autobiography by Julia Child. It was compiled by her and Alex Prud'homme, her husband's grandnephew, during the last eight months of her life, and completed and published by Prud'homme following her death in August 2004.
My Life in France recounts in detail the culinary experiences she and husband Paul Child enjoyed while living in Paris and Marseilles, including her excited description of the sole meunière lunch she savored in Rouen the day of their arrival, and which sparked her obsession with French cuisine.
The book also provides a detailed chronology of the laborious process through which her name, face, and voice became well known to most Americans.
[edit] References
- Prud'homme, Alex. "Foreword" in My Life in France by Julia Child. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.