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作者:Alice Steinbach 著出版社:Random House US出版时间:2011年12月
- 版 次:1
- 页 数:295
- 字 数:
- 印刷时间:2011年12月01日
- 开 本:32开
- 纸 张:胶版纸
- 包 装:平装
- 是否套装:否
- 国际标准书号ISBN:9780375758454
In a travel-book-cum-memoir set against a glamorous background
of European cities, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Steinbach
describes the months she spent traveling after she took a
sabbatical from her job as columnist for the Baltimore Sun. For
Steinbach, traveling is an exercise in reconnecting with a more
independent and uninhibited side of her personality. Her
not-quite-spontaneous adventure begins in Paris, where she finds a
kindred spirit in a worldly Japanese businessman. From there she
heads off to Oxford, where she takes a course in English village
life, and on to Milan, where she meets the most charming of her
fellow travelers, a young American girl soon to be married. The
obstacles Steinbach faces on her journeys seem minor--overcoming a
fear of ballroom dancing in Oxford and putting aside the habit of
always doing "at least two things at once." Only in Milan, when she
was nearly mugged, does Steinbach experience anything harrowing.
Though the de*ions of each locale are thin, they are not
really the purpose of this memoir; rather, the author's intent is
to connect emotionally with each city and to learn "to take
chances. To have adventures [and] to see if I could still hack it
on my own, away from the security of work, friends and an
established identity." Supplying more finely observed details might
have made this a richer book, but the writing is generally
optimistic, warm and genuine in a Chicken-Soup-for-Travelers kind
of way. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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