TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chisholm,Edward
TI  - A waiter in Paris: adventures in the dark heart of the city 
SN  - 1639362835
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Books
KW  - Chisholm, Edward
KW  - Waiters
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "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"--; "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"--
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