Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Steinbach, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812973607 ISBN 13: 9780812973600

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2005

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"Highly recommended . . . The beauty of [Steinbach's] narrative . . . lies in her luminous descriptions. . . . But it is her perceptive looks into the lives and minds and hearts of the people she meets through her studies that bring her settings to life and make this collection of essays truly engaging."
-Library Journal

"Steinbach makes such a life look highly desirable. . . . Her stories are powerfully seductive to anyone who's ever been tempted to get up and go, following interests wherever they may lead."
-Publishers Weekly

"A delicious experience . . . This book will entertain, educate and perhaps inspire readers to make their own journeys."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"I loved Educating Alice....Alice Steinbach may visit some of the world's most popular tourist cities but she does not follow the ordinary tourist route. Oh no! Down the back alleys Alice Steinbach goes, slipping through side doors and riding on employees-only elevators; dropping huge, slippery salmon on the floor of the Ritz Escoffier Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise and charming retired geishas into showing her their prized kimonos, wrapped in rice paper and stowed in boxes in the attic. Ms. Steinbach must be who Henry James imagined when he advised novelists to try to become 'one upon whom nothing is lost.'"
--Sarah Pritchard, author of Crackpots: A Novel

"In these uncertain times, the smart thing to do is stay home and read Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman. Alice Steinbach has more fun than anybody, whether chasing sheep in Scotland, or taking cooking lessons at the Ritz in Paris, or swinging to a salsa beat in a down-at-the-heel cafe in Havanna, or taking a writing course in Prague, or studying landscape architecture in Provence, etc. etc. etc.--- Alice's etceteras are limitless, and what all of us, surely, have always wanted to do ourselves. What is more, no matter what she does or who she sees or how hilarious the encounter, she is a lady to her toes."
--Jane Geniesse, author of Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark

"A brisk and companionate tour of the Paris Ritz, ancient streets of Kyoto, the Scottish Highlands, inner Prague and Renaissance Florence, in search of the secrets of French cooking, Japanese dance, sheepherding, writing and painting. Alice Steinbach's travel memoir serves up, in savory detail, the tricks and ingredients of these trades, even as she reveals steps in the intimate dance of an epistolary romance of her own."
--Jean McGarry, Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars

Reseña del editor:

Recounts the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's decision to quit her job in favor of undertaking a journey of self-discovery in Europe, during which she studied French cooking in Paris, attended Border-collie training in Scotland, learned traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto, and more. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0812973607
• ISBN 13: 9780812973600
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320