false 137852 3 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.<P><P>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.<P><P>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.<P><P> 132872 12 6 2007 Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World total:294|5:72|4:109|3:87|2:23|1:3| 294 1106 489 108 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 12:15:06 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 12:50:29 -0700 2007
I love his descriptions of Rome. One of my faves is (I think I'll get his right)--as he's describing all the contradictions and nuances of...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 24 19:20:16 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 19:23:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 18 07:20:23 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:25:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 13:12:36 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 00:49:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 20:12:04 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 20:21:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 05 10:00:20 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 13:52:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 10:17:12 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:45:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 22 07:34:05 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 07:36:02 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 12:52:13 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 06:33:59 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 06:14:55 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 07:56:53 -0800 2008
I just fi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 20:09:43 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 18:54:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 09 09:31:31 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 18 17:00:55 -0800 2009 con funghi so full of flavor it forces our eyes closed: the oil in the crust tastes like sun and wind; then there is the salty cheese, and the deepwoods taste of oyster mushrooms" (32).

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Some of my favorite quotes:
About living in a foreign land and being a parent of infants: "Just when we think we have a system,...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 06:59:03 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 07:23:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 11:40:16 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:32:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 20 16:02:55 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 16:06:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 12 06:51:53 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 07:15:58 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 09:44:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 24 18:39:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 18:40:06 -0700 2009


Doerr spends a tremendous amount of time writing about how he is having tr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 05:02:05 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 05:04:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=137852