Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World Contributor(s): Doerr, Anthony (Author), Doerr, Anthony (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1442394978 ISBN-13: 9781442394971 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Compact Disc Published: September 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Travel | Europe - Italy - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 5.7" L (0.30 lbs) |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
Features: Price on Product, Unabridged |
Review Citations: Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 51 Audio File 12/01/2015 pg. 57 - Exceptional Presentation Publishers Weekly 02/22/2016 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a dazzling (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doerr, Anthony: - Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won four 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. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. |
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