Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Autor Anthony Doerren Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 31 aug 2015
Anthony Doerr has received many awards?from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and with it a stipend and a writing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr learned of the award the day he and his wife returned from the hospital with newborn twins.
Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats?the chroniclers of Rome who came before him?and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and takes his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighborhood, whose clamor of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing advice is as compelling as the city itself.
This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous look at new parenthood, and a fascinating story of a writer's craft?the process by which he transforms what he sees and experiences into sentences.
Preț: 136.59 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 205
Preț estimativ în valută:
23.06€ • 24.14$ • 19.08£
23.06€ • 24.14$ • 19.08£
Indisponibil temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781442394971
ISBN-10: 1442394978
Dimensiuni: 132 x 145 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN-10: 1442394978
Dimensiuni: 132 x 145 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Simon & Schuster Audio
Notă biografică
Anthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
Descriere
Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
From the award-winning author of "The Shell Collector" and "About Grace" comes an evocative memoir of the timeless beauty of Rome, and the day-to-day wonderment of living, writing, and raising twin boys in a foreign city.
From the award-winning author of "The Shell Collector" and "About Grace" comes an evocative memoir of the timeless beauty of Rome, and the day-to-day wonderment of living, writing, and raising twin boys in a foreign city.