Take Me to Paris, Johnny is John Foster’s moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Céspedes. It traces Juan’s youth in Cuba and his move to New York, where he struggles to make it as a dancer. There, in —in ‘a chance encounter, much like any other’—he meets John, an 5/5(2). Take Me to Paris, Johnny is just such a book. It was no doubt wrong, because unthinking, to imagine that a book about a lover, dead of AIDS, was bound to be both sentimental and depressing, but there was no particular reason to imagine that the historian John Foster would produce a homage to his partner Juan Céspedes which is not only some. Take Me to Paris, Johnny is John Foster's moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Céspedes. It traces Juan's youth in Cuba and his move to New York, where he struggles to make it as a dancer. There, in —in 'a chance encounter, much like any other'—he meets John, an .
Take Me to Paris, Johnny is John Foster's moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Céspedes. It traces Juan's youth in Cuba and his move to New York, where he struggles to make it as a dancer. There, in in 'a chance encounter, much like any other'-he meets John, an Australian historian. Take Me to Paris, Johnny. A Cuban dancer meets an Australian historian, and a casual fling gradually becomes an international love affair that transforms their lives. In this unforgettable memoir, John Foster recounts the life and death of his lover, Juan Cespedes. This unlikely love story takes in much of the twentieth century seen from the. Doctor John Foster retired from the University of Melbourne in August because of illness. On 2 September of that year, he launched his biography of Juan Cespedas, Take Me to Paris, Johnny, which received unanimous critical acclaim and was short-listed for the Age Book of the Year. He died, aged 50, on 6 May
Originally published in Australia in , John Foster’s Take Me to Paris, Johnny recounts the life of his lover Juan Céspedes, who died of AIDS in This Text Classics edition–the first in the United States–includes an introduction by critic Peter Craven and an afterword by Foster’s close friend John Rickard. Take Me to Paris, Johnny was Foster’s tribute to his lover, Juan Céspedes, a Cuban dancer who died of AIDS in The memoir was published in and shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year award; within a year, John Foster himself was dead. Titles by John Foster. Take Me to Paris, Johnny. Take Me to Paris, Johnny is John Foster's moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Céspedes. It traces Juan's youth in Cuba and his move to New York, where he struggles to make it as a dancer. There, in —in 'a chance encounter, much like any other'—he meets John, an Australian historian.
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