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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (Record no. 18726)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2007005171
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781416573166
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 180756240
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Classification number PS3604.O34
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813.54
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Anthony Doerr
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Scribner
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 224 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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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        Lake Chapala Society Lake Chapala Society 07/17/2024   MEM 813.54 DOER 48872 07/17/2024 1 07/17/2024 Book

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