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The Memory Chalet

By Tony Judt

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The Memory Chalet

By Tony Judt

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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Final reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt. Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus route becomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells all come alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhood through Paris, Prague, and points east to New York, where he found his home. Judt brings his moral clarity and wit to bear on everything from fast cars to radical politics and, finally, the devastating illness that took his life. This book, composed when Judt was paralyzed and unable physically to write, found its shape in the ordered rooms of a Swiss Chalet of the mind: a warm refuge in the closing darkness of his final years.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2011-10-25
Publication Date:
2011-10-25
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0143119974
ISBN13:
9780143119975
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
291 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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