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Memory Chalet, The |
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Memory Chalet, The |
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| Author Name: |
Judt, Tony |
| Publisher Name: |
William Heinemann |
| ISBN: |
9780434020966 |
| Subject: |
Essays, Journals, Letters & Other Prose Works |
| Edition: |
HB |
| Language: |
English |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Publication Date: |
11/04/2010 |
| Price: |
 1099.00 |
| List Price: |
879.20 |
| You Save: |
219.8 |
| Availablity: |
Yes |
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PRE ORDER |
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| About Book |
“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 roadtrips 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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