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 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 neighborhood, whose clamor
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 story of a
writer's craft -- the process by which he transforms what he sees
and experiences into sentences.
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