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Escape Home - Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss (Paperback)
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Escape Home - Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 560
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"Intimate and scholarly...Patient readers will be rewarded. An
encyclopedic and epistolary family history, a eulogy for pre-Reich
Vienna and an ode to midcentury modernism." -- Kirkus Reviews "This
jewel should not be called a book but a museum." -- Will Semler,
author (Melbourne, Australia) "One of the more uplifting accounts
of European emigre life that I have read in a long time...It will
touch you to tears right away, regardless of how many accounts of
similar fates you believe to have studied and understood...What a
book!" -- Volker M. Welter, author and architectural historian "An
invaluable addition to the literature on the birth of modern
Aspen." --Stewart Oksenhorn, The Aspen Times Charles Paterson (born
Karl Schanzer) was only nine years old when the Nazis invaded
Austria and his father, Stefan, fled with his children to avoid
persecution. To assure their continued safety, the children were
baptized and adopted by the Paterson family in Australia while
Stefan made a harrowing escape through occupied France. It would be
eight years, after much sorrow and loss, before Charles and his
sister would reunite with Stefan in the United States. After
Charles and Stefan settle in Aspen, Colorado, amidst the
snow-capped peaks that remind them of the Austrian Alps, Stefan
becomes a high school teacher known for his humor and adventure
stories while Charles teaches skiing, serves as a Frank Lloyd
Wright apprentice, and then builds his thesis project, the The
Boomerang ski lodge. Charles lives with Stefan at The Boomerang
and, as Aspen grows into a world-class ski resort, spends fifty
years welcoming thousands of people to the town with Austrian
warmth and gemutlichkeit. Based on archival documents and letters,
together with the authors' personal reflections, Escape Home is a
family memoir and a meditation on the domestic qualities of
architecture, where the bonds of culture and family prove to be the
true foundation for rebuilding meaningful lives and finding both
security and freedom.
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