OP: Liebling Abroad

Wideview Books, 1981. Paperback. Very Good.

Abbot Joseph Liebling (1904–1963), a long-time staffer at The New Yorker, is regarded by many as one of the finest journalists of his time. He wrote about everything in the world that caught his attention: boxing (the only regular columnist the magazine ever had on that subject), politics, and the triumphs and foibles of the press. As The New Yorker’s war correspondent he covered the Normandy invasion in 1944, and he wrote both tirelessly and gleefully about assorted rogues and swindlers. 

But what Liebling lived and wrote about most enthusiastically was the world of food. In Paris as a young man, he discovered the joys of good eating, which he documented memorably in one of our shop’s all-time best-selling books, Between Meals—a book Anthony Bourdain called the “benchmark for great food writing.”

Leibling Abroad (1981) presents, in a single volume, his four books on his time in France:

• The Road Back to Paris (1944)—war reportage 1939–1943
• Mollie & Other War Pieces (1964)—war reportage 1943–1944
• Normandy Revisited (1958)—the Normandy invasion and Liebling’s return in the 1950s
• Between Meals (1962)—a food memoir of Paris 

We are offering a paperback copy in Very Good condition, showing shelfwear about the edges and creasing to the wrappers. An excellent and economical introduction to the esteemed writer’s work.