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pp. 199, “Like the othersDidion, Joyce Carol Oates, and Abigail Thomas, to name a fewMarton defies the conventional wisdom that good writing is Wordsworthian emotion recollected in tranquility; she seems to be writing the story as it is happening. The book, short and intimate, reads like the wind from the urgency of the opening scene. … Great writing is often about yearning, yearning for a lost place, a lost love, or just a lost moment in time. Marton knows a lot about longing for the past. … This book feels like her way of keeping Richard Holbrooke alive if only on the page. It works.
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| ISBN | 1451691548 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9781451691542 | |
| Number of pages | 199 | |
| Original Title | Paris: A Love Story | |
| Published Date | 2012 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | New york | |
| Edition | Third | |
| Category: | Travel | |
| Author: | Kati Marton | |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
pp. 199, “Like the othersDidion, Joyce Carol Oates, and Abigail Thomas, to name a fewMarton defies the conventional wisdom that good writing is Wordsworthian emotion recollected in tranquility; she seems to be writing the story as it is happening. The book, short and intimate, reads like the wind from the urgency of the opening scene. … Great writing is often about yearning, yearning for a lost place, a lost love, or just a lost moment in time. Marton knows a lot about longing for the past. … This book feels like her way of keeping Richard Holbrooke alive if only on the page. It works.
| Weight | 1 kg |
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