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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World [Paperback]

Anthony Doerr
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate (16 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007265298
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007265299
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 351,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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‘Anthony Doerr is dazzling in this book, in the way he celebrates the joys as well as the pain of being a parent and in love, being a writer and being in Rome, reminding us that certain experiences never grow stale when they are expressed through the fresh eyes of a real writer.’ Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

‘Anthony Doerr found himself in the perfect Eternal City with the eternal Paternal Problem: how to care for two beautiful newborn twins while still doing his work as a writer and student and observer. The result is a funny, precise, touching account of cultural barricades crossed and fatherly exhaustions overcome; a story of the universalities of parenting and the specificities of Roman life that will lift the heart of every parent and delight the mind of every lover of Italy.’ Adam Gopnik, author of ‘Through the Children's Gate and From Paris to the Moon’

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`He writes perceptively about strangeness: the tiny oddities of a foreign city, the terror of a foreign hospital...'

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Good story 19 May 2011
Format:Paperback
I read this book on a plane - even with all the noise it kept my attention. I didn't learn anything new about Rome, but I enjoyed the story. Anthony Doerr is a fantastic storyteller. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is passionate about good human interest story.
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By Grace W
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An invitation from the writer - new father of twins with no experience of parenthood and no Italian - to share his year in Rome. Neither a typical novel nor a piece of travel writing, this book enables us to experience what is, to him, a completely different world. His descriptive writing is excellent - both of Rome and its surroundings and of the stresses, strains and tenderness of parenthood in an unfamiliar environment. I felt that I was being carried along with him at a pace which seemed at the same time to rush by as the seasons passed and to stand still in the moment, as at the death of Pope John Paul II. As a brief visitor to Rome I found it evocative and as a future visitor I would have been inspired to visit, but it would be enough to share in the moment with no intention to travel at all.
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Boring book about nothing, really. You learn next to nothing about Rome, and it's very impersonal regarding his family. The part about the pope is also dry. All in all a waste of time.
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