A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life - Hardcover
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"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted
with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of
worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully
lived." -Melissa Febos, The New York Times
Winner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award"DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's her
lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read." --The Washington
Post
A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life - Hardcover
$27.95
by Marcia DeSanctis (Author)
"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted
with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of
worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully
lived." -Melissa Febos, The New York Times
Winner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award"DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it's her
lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read." --The Washington
Post
Vogue's Best Books of 2022
The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2022
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 2020, Marcia DeSanctis tells stories
that span the globe and half a lifetime. With intimacy and depth, over
quicksand in France, insomnia in Cambodia, up a volcano in Rwanda,
spinning through the eye of a snowstorm in Bismarck, and atop a dumpster
in her own backyard, this New York Times bestselling author, award-winning essayist and journalist for Vogue and Travel + Leisure immerses
us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than
we're up for. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, the odd
rattlesnake, a random head of state, and many times over, the ghosts of
her past. Each subsequent voyage leads to revelations about her search
for solitude, a capacity for adventure, and always, a longing for home.
Author Biography
Marcia DeSanctis is a journalist, essayist, and author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, a New York Times travel bestseller. She has won five Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers and is the recipient of two Grand Prize Solas Awards including the 2021 Gold Award for Travel Story of the Year. Before becoming a writer, she was a television news producer for ABC, NBC and CBS News. She lives in Connecticut.
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 1.2 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN
Publication Date: May 03, 2022
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