A Hard Place to Leave Stories from a Restless Life |
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| Author:
| DeSanctis, Marcia |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60952-206-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2022 |
| Publisher: | Travelers' Tales/Solas House, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.99 |
Book Description:
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"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
Winner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award
"DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's herlushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to...
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"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
Winner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award
"DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's herlushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read." --The WashingtonPost
Vogue's Best Books of 2022
The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2022
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, andending on a West Texas trail in 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells storiesthat span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, overquicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda,spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpsterin her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immersesus in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more thanwe're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the oddrattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts ofher past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her searchfor solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.