My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life - Hardcover

Rybczynski, Witold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743235983 ISBN 13: 9780743235983

Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc., 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Rybczynski Witold

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

"My Two Polish Grandfathers is an absolutely delightful book, which is no surprise to me, being one of Witold's greatest admirers." -- David M. Childs, architect of One World Trade Center and the Time Warner Center

"A very enlightening book by one of our very best architectural critics. The story of Witold Rybczynski's Polish forebears during World War Two, and how they ended up in Canada, is fascinating. His account of his architectural education, and how his distinctive perspective on architecture developed, helps explain how he became something of a maverick in this age of modernism." -- Nathan Glazer, professor emeritus, Harvard University, and author of From a Cause to a Style

"Disarming, charming, sweet-natured, large-hearted--all these adjectives describe this little book, and I imagine they describe the architect-author as well." -- Carolyn See, Washington Post

"Wide-ranging, compulsively readable... A satisfying and valuable addition to a still growing literature." -- Helen Epstein, Phildelphia Inqurier

Reseña del editor:

A collection of linked autobiographical essays traces the upheavals of European life during World War II as experienced by the author's parents and grandparents in Warsaw, tracing how their thriving and cultured existence was decimated by the war while revealing the odds they overcame in order to survive and stay together. 25,000 first printing.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0743235983
• ISBN 13: 9780743235983
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228