A hard place to leave stories from a restless life
Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. Starting in a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983, weaving back and forth to rural New England, and ending on a West Texas trail in 202...
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Palo Alto, CA :
Travelers' Tales, an imprint of Solas House, Inc.,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Masha
- 2. The Precipice
- 3. Cold War Game Theory
- 4. To The Man at the Urinal in Prague
- 5. Un Matin de Septembre
- 6. Halloween
- 7. The Substitute
- 8. Love's Labour's Won
- 9. The Language of Sculpture, and of Words
- 10. Waiting for the Sun
- 11. Cape Town
- 12. Strangers on a Train
- 13. One Day, Three Dead Men
- 14. Green Pastures
- 15. Twenty Years and Counting
- 16. Traveling Solo in the World's Most Romantic Country
- 17. Milk, Bread, Butter, Chocolate
- 18. The After Season
- 19. Headlights
- 20. Connie Britton's Hair
- 21. The Offer that Refused Me
- 22. The Stories They Tell 189
- 23. Dog Walk
- 24. Falling
- 25. Seven Drafts of Coffee
- 26. Petra or Bust
- 27. The Stick 223
- 28. Into the Cold
- 29. Winter (With Apologies to Colette)
- 30. Time or the Sahara Wind
- 31. Take Me With You
- 32. Signs of Life and Death in Africa
- 33. He's Leaving Home
- 34. Willa Cather's Lavandou
- 35. Fear and Solace in the Big Bend
- 36. Brass City
- 37. The Voyage.
