Franceland

About the Book

Harrowing, seething, scary, tremulous, frightening, hilarious, petulant, frustrating, even searing, tale of a sabbatical year at a French University not-in-Paris.

Read as Dwayne tries to convince a Gabonese Customs agent that his RAM was "free" via a coupon and thus not dutiable.

But there’s better, much better: mad cap races in tiny cars during hapless transportation strikes and terrorist attacks, resulting in such sure-fire defenses as welding the trashcans shut.

And, churning, yearning, stewing underneath it all is Dwayne’s mid-life sea-change. Like what? Did he chase after pizza waitresses? Buy a Miata? NO! He became a Libertarian.

Learn how to rate French restaurants, hotels and bars by the infallible “quality of the bar dog” system.

Learn how to speak real French without the agony of learning any. Come to understand why the entire French education system is incomprehensible.

Join us in this neither fish nor fowl (note to book stores: “travel/humor”) romp through France, a joyous but often sad, digestible yet searing (I know; I already said that) epistolary memoir.