FOUR SEASONS IN ROME: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World - Couverture souple

Doerr

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007265298 ISBN 13 : 9780007265299

Editeur : Fourth Estate, 2016

Synopsis

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.

Anthony Doerr's book 'All the Light We Cannot See' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-12-04.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007265298
• ISBN 13: 9780007265299
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: HarperCollins Publishers, Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande