The Paris Correspondent - Hardcover

Praise for "The Paris Correspondent"

"Cowell, a "New York Times" reporter, does an excellent job of dramatically illustrating the impact of technology on the gathering and dissemination of news...When these characters uncork a yarn about the past, the book snaps to life." --"Publishers Weekly"
Praise for "The Paris Correspondent"
"This novel is at once a celebration of the romantic life of the foreign news correspondent before the age of the Internet and an elegy for a once-noble profession that has become besieged, mercenary, and driven by the bottom line . . . Cowell finds his rhythm as he progresses and builds to a satisfying and poignant conclusion." --"Library Journal"
"No one knows the life of a foreign correspondent better than Alan Cowell and no one cooks up the way he does -- sizzling over a hot flame with plenty of spices. He makes the mouth water, the eyes tear and the belly shake with laughter." --John Darnton, award-winning journalist and author of "Black and White and Dead All Over"
"Good novels about journalists are rare and ones about website journalism, until now, non-existent. Alan Cowell has changed all that with this sparking story of foreign correspondents living life to the full in that most romantic of cities, Paris." -- Phil

Praise for "The Paris Correspondent"
"Alan Cowell tells a riveting story of adventure, courage, love, tragedy and betrayal, set in a world he knows as well as anyone - that of the peripatetic thrill-seeking foreign correspondent. But there's a twist: that world is in peril as newspapers lose ground to the Internet. Cowell catches this moment brilliantly, offering an elegy to the past, a warning about the future and a tribute to old-school journalists caught in the maelstrom."--Alan Riding, author of "And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris" and former Paris bureau chief of "The New York Times"
"This novel is at once a celebration of the romantic life of the foreign news correspondent before the age of the Internet and an elegy for a once-noble profession that has become besieged, mercenary, and driven by the bottom line . . . Cowell finds his rhythm as he progresses and builds to a satisfying and poignant conclusion." --"Library Journal"
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"Good novels about journalists are rare and ones about website journalism, until now, non-existent. Alan Cowell has changed all that with this sparking story of foreign correspondents living life to the full in that most romantic of cities, Paris."---- Phillip Knightley, author of"The First Casualty", a history of war co

"A stylish, expertly drawn novel about the characters who made journalism what it was, and whose disappearance is making journalism what it is now."---"Kirkus"

"Unlike most of the news stories we read these days, The Paris Correspondent provides a satisfying ending, with truth served and the honor of the journalism profession upheld--even if Mr. Cowell pulls an odd switch at the end and makes Joe Shelby address us directly, a jarring change in narrative tone."---"New York Journal of Books"

"Cowell, a "New York Times" reporter, does an excellent job of dramatically illustrating the impact of technology on the gathering and dissemination of news...When these characters uncork a yarn about the past, the book snaps to life."---"Publishers Weekly"

"Cowell (himself the senior foreign correspondent for "The New York Times") ventures into home territory with a wry portrait of old-school newshounds struggling to stay relevant."---"The New York Times"Sunday Book Review
"No one knows the life of a foreign correspondent better than Alan Cowell and no one cooks up the way he does -- sizzling over a hot flame with plenty of spices. He makes the mouth water, the eyes tear and the belly shake with laughter."
--John Darnton, award-winning journalist and author of "Black and White and Dead All Over"

"Alan Cowell tells a riveting story of adventure, courage, love, tragedy and betrayal, set in a world he knows as well as anyone - that of the peripatetic thrill-seeking foreign correspondent. But there's a twist: that world is in peril as newspapers lose ground to the Internet. Cowell catches this moment brilliantly, offering an elegy to the past, a warning about the future and a tribute to old-school journalists caught in the maelstrom."
--Alan Riding, author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied

Ed Clancy and Joe Shelby are journalists with The Paris Star, an English-language paper based in Paris. Relics from a time when print news was in its heyday, when being a reporter meant watching a city crumble around you as you called in one last dispatch, the Internet age has taken them by surprise. The two friends are faced with the death of what they hold most dear--their careers, and, for Shelby, a woman he cannot bring himself to mention.The Paris Correspondent is a tribute to journalism, love, and liquor in a turbulent era. Written in riveting prose that captures the changing world of a foreign correspondent's life, Alan S. Cowell's breakout novel is not to be missed. Writing from experience and in homage to Reynolds Packard's Dateline Paris, his razor-sharp and darkly funny style will win readers the world over.