SOURCE: “Frozen in Time and Youth in City of Light,” in Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1999, p. E3.

In the following review, Levi offers a positive assessment of Paris Trance.

For sheer fun, few books published last year could beat the Englishman Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage. The most hilarious example of indecision since Waiting for Godot, Dyer's book told of a multi-year hegira while the author wandered between France, Italy, Greece and Mexico, trying to decide whether to write a novel or a big book on D. H. Lawrence, and ended up writing neither.

The novel, though, has finally seen the light of day in Paris Trance. And while indecision is the alternating current that drives the novel, there is a delicacy and a charm—and, of course, a humor—to Dyer's account of the love affairs of two pairs of golden youths in contemporary Paris, that...