ISBN: 9781609522063
Editorial: Travelers' Tales
Autor: DeSanctis, Marcia
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 336
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: About the AuthorMarcia 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. -- Marcia DeSanctis“Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer…a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.” —Melissa Febos, The New York Times“DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it’s her lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.” —The Washington PostVogue's Best Books of 2022The Washington Post’s Best Travel Books of 2022Restless 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. With intimacy and depth, 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. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.ReviewPraise for A Hard Place to Leave“Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer…a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.” —Melissa Febos, The New York Times“Dazzling….inspiring and beautifully written, A Hard Place to Leave is a must-read for any woman traveler—and a must-read for women in general.” —Forbes“Along the way, DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it’s her lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.”—The Washington Post“The essays might be framed as travel writing, but they are just as much stories of self-definition that take place here, there, and everywhere.” —Vogue“Excellent—I can’t rave about it enough.” —Air Mail“The luminous essays of journalist Marcia DeSanctis’s A Hard Place to Leave juxtapose the restless search for elsewhere with longing for home.” —ForeWord Magazine starred review“DeSanctis writes fabulously, brutally and beautifully.” —Electric Lit“Marcia DeSanctis is an icon in the realm of travel writing, and essay writing as well.” —Air Mail“These probing, achingly beautiful essays form an indelible portrait of a life. Who is this woman with her many, at times contradictory, facets? She is an adventurer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, her world set spinning by the brilliance of her mind, the tenacity of her love for her family, and the intensity of her longing to be anywhere but here. Through the very act of interrogating her own restlessness, Marcia DeSanctis provides us with a tantalizing window into a rich and singular world.” —Dani Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance“Marcia DeSanctis’s A Hard Place to Leave is perfumed with lush, luminous language as she sweeps us all across the globe. From Moscow to Cape Town, quiet New England to Sweden, these tender portraits grow on us like a spring garden.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders: In Praise
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