From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of the timeless beauty of Rome, and the day-to-day wonderment of living, writing, and raising twin boys in a foreign city.
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..
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.
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 reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats -- the chroniclers of Rome who came before him--and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe.
Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr\'s varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world.
Doerr learned of the award the day he and his wife returned from the hospital with newborn twins.
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.
Anthony Doerr has received many awards--from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association.
From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See , a dazzling (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran ) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.
From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of the timeless beauty of Rome, and the day-to-day wonderment of living, writing, and raising twin boys in a foreign city
