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On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr: Four Seasons in Rome Anthony Doerr: Four Seasons in Rome

From ​the author of the acclaimed, instant New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, 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… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2007

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HarperCollins, London, 2008
224 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780007265299
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Scribner, New York, 2008
224 oldal · ISBN: 9781416573166

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Anthony Doerr: Four Seasons in Rome

Anthony Doerr: Four Seasons in Rome On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

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