Four Seasons In Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, And The Biggest Funeral In The History Of The World
by Anthony Doerr /
2015 / English / PDF
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Anthony Doerr, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
Anthony Doerr, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ofAll the
Light We Cannot See
All the
Light We Cannot See, reads his 2007 memoir,
, reads his 2007 memoir,Four Seasons in
Rome
Four Seasons in
Rome—available on audio for the very first time!
—available on audio for the very first time!
On the day Tony Doerr and his wife returned from the hospital with
their newborn twins, he received a letter from the Academy of Arts
and Letters informing him that he had won the prestigious Rome
Prize, which provides a stipend, an apartment, and a writing studio
at the beautiful American Academy for a year. Six months and a few
Italian lessons later, they arrived in Rome.
On the day Tony Doerr and his wife returned from the hospital with
their newborn twins, he received a letter from the Academy of Arts
and Letters informing him that he had won the prestigious Rome
Prize, which provides a stipend, an apartment, and a writing studio
at the beautiful American Academy for a year. Six months and a few
Italian lessons later, they arrived in Rome.
Insatiably curious, an avid reader, and an extraordinary eloquent
observer of nature, Doerr sets out to discover Rome. He reads
Pliny, Dante, Shelley and visits the churches and piazzas and
ancient cisterns they describe. He reads the history of the papacy
and attends the vigil as Pope John Paul II lies dying. He takes his
twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through
the oculus. And he and his family are embraced by the butchers,
grocers, and bakers in their little neighborhood on a Roman
hill.
Insatiably curious, an avid reader, and an extraordinary eloquent
observer of nature, Doerr sets out to discover Rome. He reads
Pliny, Dante, Shelley and visits the churches and piazzas and
ancient cisterns they describe. He reads the history of the papacy
and attends the vigil as Pope John Paul II lies dying. He takes his
twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through
the oculus. And he and his family are embraced by the butchers,
grocers, and bakers in their little neighborhood on a Roman
hill.
For anyone who loves Rome—or wants to know it—this is a gorgeous,
informative audiobook. It is also an illuminating account of how a
writer transforms experience into sentences, how this writer sees
and captures the world.
For anyone who loves Rome—or wants to know it—this is a gorgeous,
informative audiobook. It is also an illuminating account of how a
writer transforms experience into sentences, how this writer sees
and captures the world.
