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The Memory Chalet
by Judt, Tony
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1594202893
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202896
- Seller
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: The Penguin Press. 2010. 12mo [approx 14x21cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 226 pages. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. Written after the author was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Synopsis
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head." -Tony Judt The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation "was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution." A series of road trips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt's attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet-a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB324642
- Title
- The Memory Chalet
- Author
- Judt, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594202893
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202896
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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Adelaide Booksellers
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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