The Memory Chalet

Informationen zum Autor Professor Tony Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books , the Times Literary Supplement , the New Republic , the New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US. His books include Ill Fares the Land , Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century , and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 , which was one of the New York Times Book Review 's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August, 2010 at the age of 62. Klappentext In 2008, historian Tony Judt learnt that he was suffering from a disease that would eventually trap his extraordinary mind in a declining and immobile body. At night, sleepless in his motionless state, he revisited the past in an effort to keep himself sane, and his dictated essays form a memoir unlike any you have read before. All his experiences are as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet - a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Judt
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780099555599
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955559-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs