Questions About Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

by Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)

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What is this book about? His "All the Light We Cannot See" may have spoiled me for anything else. I will never forget his writing!

Sandra Heath I was distracted by how amazing his writing was. I'd dissect his sentences, wowed by the imagery in each of his sentences; the care he took constructi…moreI was distracted by how amazing his writing was. I'd dissect his sentences, wowed by the imagery in each of his sentences; the care he took constructing them. Wowed by his vocabulary. I really enjoyed this memoir because I also loved the experience of a new place. Traveling overseas. In Europe. In Iran. In England. Paris. Greece. There's nothing like it. And of course I read "All the Light We Cannot See" before this. So it was a perk to stumble across a novel about four seasons in Rome.(less)

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Whose was the 'biggest funeral in the history of the world'?

Susan Morris Pope John Paul II

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Question: At the very end, a woman in the bakery tells (in rapid Italian) a story about twins and a crash and Christmas. There was a fatal crash earlier in the story, involving (I think) a BMW and pedestrians or a scooter...? I wonder if she is telling Doerr of the same crash, but I can't find the original one in the book. What page was that original crash mentioned? TIA

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