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  • Four Seasons in Rome

  • On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
  • Written by: Anthony Doerr
  • Narrated by: Anthony Doerr
  • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)

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Four Seasons in Rome

Written by: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Anthony Doerr
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Publisher's Summary

Anthony Doerr has received many awards - from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and with it a stipend and a writing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr learned of the award the day he and his wife returned from the hospital with newborn twins.

Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats - the chroniclers of Rome who came before him - and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and takes his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighborhood, whose clamor of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing advice is as compelling as the city itself.

This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous look at new parenthood, and a fascinating story of a writer's craft - the process by which he transforms what he sees and experiences into sentences.

©2007 Anthony Doerr. All rights reserved. (P)2015 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Travelogue with a twist

I very much enjoy Doerr's novels and was tentative about this listen but I urge you not to be. Doerr reads this chapter of his life with such joy and discovery -- I was quickly hooked. I'm also charmed by the gift represented by this book, to Doerr's sons who star in this story as babes in Rome. Delightful!

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Pleasant

Having read and loved "All The Light We Cannot See" first, this was nothing like that. Just a pleasant reminiscence of a landmark year in the author's life. I enjoyed it.

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Closest you will get to a Roman holiday for now!

Loved this book. I felt like I had a holiday. I have been to Rone but briefly. The author filled in a lot of banks and I enjoyed the story of their new roll as parents.

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Anthony Doerr about Rome.

To be pretentious, I think the title of this review says it all. Perfectly paced, beautifully read by the author himself, this book just flows. Anthony Doerr had different plans but got overwhelmed by Rome so he basically had to write this book and so, all the love and hectic experience that the Eternal City represents transpires from every sentence.

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