Four Seasons in Rome (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
224
Utgivningsdatum
2008-06-01
Förlag
Fourth Estate Ltd
Dimensioner
204 x 139 x 17 mm
Vikt
248 g
ISBN
9780007265299

Four Seasons in Rome

On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

av Anthony Doerr
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-06-01
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On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome Four Seasons in Rome charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, and the first year of parenthood. 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 neighbourhood, whose clamour 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 account of the alchemy of writers.
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Anthony Doerr is dazzling in this book, in the way he celebrates the joys as well as the pain of being a parent and in love, being a writer and being in Rome, reminding us that certain experiences never grow stale when they are expressed through the fresh eyes of a real writer. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran Anthony Doerr found himself in the perfect Eternal City with the eternal Paternal Problem: how to care for two beautiful newborn twins while still doing his work as a writer and student and observer. The result is a funny, precise, touching account of cultural barricades crossed and fatherly exhaustions overcome; a story of the universalities of parenting and the specificities of Roman life that will lift the heart of every parent and delight the mind of every lover of Italy. Adam Gopnik, author of Through the Children's Gate and From Paris to the Moon

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Anthony Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and twin sons. He is the author of The Shell Collector and About Grace, and is one of Grantas Best Young American Novelists.

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