{"product_id":"four-seasons-in-rome-book-anthony-doerr-9781416540014","title":"Four Seasons in Rome","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Cloud Cuckoo Land\u003c\/i\u003e, a dazzling (Azar Nafisi, author of \u003ci\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exquisitely observed, \u003ci\u003eFour Seasons in Rome \u003c\/i\u003edescribes 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 I 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50013008560401,"sku":"CIN1416540016G","price":5.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50273679409425,"sku":"CIN1416540016A","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50511954706705,"sku":"CIN1416540016VG","price":4.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":51398227853585,"sku":"CIN1416540016LN","price":7.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53127328006417,"sku":"GOR005873795","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1416540016.jpg?v=1750857972","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/four-seasons-in-rome-book-anthony-doerr-9781416540014","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}