Marcia DeSanctis

A Hard Place to Leave

Stories from a Restless Life

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Produktbeschreibung

"Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories that span the globe and half a lifetime. ... Over quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda, spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist, and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than we're up for"--Publisher marketing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 134mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781609522063
• ISBN-10: 1609522060
• Artikelnr.: 62226848

Autorenporträt

Marcia DeSanctis is a journalist, essayist, and author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, a New York Times travel bestseller. She has won five Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers and is the recipient of two Grand Prize Solas Awards including the 2021 Gold Award for Travel Story of the Year. Before becoming a writer, she was a television news producer for ABC, NBC and CBS News. She lives in Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
1. Masha
2. The Precipice
3. Cold War Game Theory
4. The Offer that Refused Me
5. Un Matin de Septembre
Interlude: Halloween
6. To The Man at the Urinal in Prague
7. The Substitute
8. Love’s Labour’s Won
9. The Language of Sculpture, and of Words
Interlude: Cape Town
10. Waiting for the Sun
11. Goodnight Sweetheart
12. One Day, Three Dead Men
13. Green Pastures and the Ghosts of Rwanda
14. Twenty Years and Counting
15. The Romance of Traveling Alone
16. Milk Bread Butter Chocolate
17. Headlights
18. Connie Britton’s Hair
19. The Stories They Tell                    
Interlude: Dog Walk
20. Falling
21. Seven Draughts of Coffee
22. Petra or Bust
23. Into the Cold
24. Winter (With Apologies to Colette)
25. Time or the Sahara Wind
26. Take me With You
27. Signs of Life and Death in Africa
28. He’s Leaving Home
29. Willa Cather in Lavandou
30. Fear and Solace in the Big Bend
31. Brass City
32. The Voyage
Postscript