Destination Shanghai, Paul French coffee table books Shortly afterwards

Shortly afterwards

from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction

replace us altogether

and loved by everyone

Invisible Cities

Destination Shanghai, Paul French coffee table books Shortly afterwardsFor the privileged a cosmopolitan pleasure ground; For the desperate a port of last resort. A pot of gold at the end of an Oriental rainbow; A thick slice of hell denounced from the pulpit. The start of a journey for many; The end of the road for some. A place to find fame, or to seek anonymity; Rogues, chancers, showgirls, criminals For so many people from so many lands, there was one phrase that sent a tingle of hope or a shiver of anticipation down