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HardCover Pub Date: November 2010 Pages: 240 in Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Selected by The New York Times Book the Review as a Notable Solutions Book of the YearFinal reflections on a happy life of-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt.Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay ings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus route becomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells all come alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhood through Paris. Prague. and points east to New York. where he found his home. Judt ings his moral clarity and wit to bear on everything from fast cars to radical politics and. finally. the devastating illness that took his life. This book. composed when Judt was paralyzed and unable physically to wr...
HardCover Pub Date: November 2010 Pages: 240 in Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Selected by The New York Times Book the Review as a Notable Solutions Book of the YearFinal reflections on a happy life of-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt.Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay ings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus route becomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells all come alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhood through Paris. Prague. and points east to New York. where he found his home. Judt ings his moral clarity and wit to bear on everything from fast cars to radical politics and. finally. the devastating illness that took his life. This book. composed when Judt was paralyzed and unable physically to wr...
Tony Judt
Born in 1948, Tony Judt was raised in the East End of London by a mother whose parents had immigrated from Russia and a Belgian father who descended from a line of Lithuanian rabbis. Judt was educated...
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