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A Hard Place to Leave

- Stories from a Restless Life

Om A Hard Place to Leave

?Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.? ?Melissa Febos, The New York Times ?DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's her lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.? ?The Washington Post Vogue's Best Books of 2022The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2022 Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home.Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than we're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781609522063
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 254
  • Utgitt:
  • 16. juni 2022
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 203x133x24 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 382 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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Leveringstid: 4-7 virkedager
Forventet levering: 19. november 2024

Beskrivelse av A Hard Place to Leave

?Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.? ?Melissa Febos, The New York Times
?DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's her
lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.? ?The Washington
Post
Vogue's Best Books of 2022The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2022
Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home.Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and
ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories
that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over
quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda,
spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster
in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses
us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than
we're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd
rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of
her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search
for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.

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