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Marcia DeSanctis Book Talk & Signing
Thursday, December 4, 2014 @ 6:30pm
Tickets are $10 or $21.15*
Fiction Addiction
1175 Woods Crossing Road #5
Greenville, South Carolina 29607
At an event co-sponsored by Emrys and Fiction Addiction, New York
Times bestselling travel author Marcia DeSanctis will be discussing her
new travel book 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go
(fravelers' Tales, paperback, $19.95), at Fiction Addiction at 6:30pm.
*Tickets are $10 (ticket admits one to the event and may be redeemed on
a purchase that day) or $21.15 (ticket admits two to the event and
includes a paperback copy of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go).
Told in a series of stylish, original essays, 100 Places in France Every
Woman Should Go is for the serious Francophile, for the woman
dreaming of a trip to Paris, and for those who love crisp stories well-told.
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Like all great travel writing, this volume goes beyond the guidebook and
offers insight not only about where to go but why to go there. Combining advice, memoir and meditations
on the glories of traveling through France, this book is the must-have in your carry-on when flying to Paris.
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Award-winning writer Marcia DeSanctis draws on years of travels and living in France to lead you through
vineyards, architectural treasures, fabled gardens and contemplative hikes from Biarritz to Deauville, Antibes
to the French Alps. These 100 entries capture art, history, food, fresh air and style and along the way, she
tells the stories of fascinating women who changed the country's destiny. Ride a white horse in the Camargue,
find Paris's hidden museums, try thalassotherapy in St. Malo, and buy raspberries at Nice's Cour Saleya
market. From sexy to literary, spiritual to simply gorgeous, 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go
is an indispensable companion for the smart and curious traveler to France.
The book also features two Greenville women- Anna Kate Hipp, Emrys member and Emrys Board Member,
Carol Young Gallagher,
Please sign up on the Fiction Addiction website early and pre-order a book to be sure they have a copy for
Marcia to sign. It will be a great Christmas present!
Marcia DeSanctis is aformer television news producer who has written essays and articles for numerous
publications including UJgue, Marie Claire, Town & Country More, Departures, The Christian Science
Monitor, and The New York Times Magazine. Her essays have been widely anthologized and she is the
recipient ofthree LoweU Thomas Awards for excellence in traveljournalism, as well as a So/as Awardfor
best travel writing. She holds a degree from Princeton University in Slavic Languages and Literature and a
Masters in Foreign Policy from the Fletcher School ofLaw and Diplomacy. She lived and workedfor several
years in Paris and travels as much as possible to France. She lives in northwest Connecticut with her husband
and two children.