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Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (Paperback)
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Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (Paperback)
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List price R300
Loot Price R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
You Save R32 (11%)
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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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