| Notable
Books of 2003 |
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Almost
There
by Nuala O'Faolain
It is a provocative meditation on the "crucible
of middle age." It is also a story of good
fortune chasing out bad--of an accidental harvest
of happiness. |
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Big
House: Century in the Life of an American Summer
Home
by George Howe Colt
This intimate and poignant history of a sprawling
century-old summer house on Cape Cod traces one
family's fascinating story and celebrates the
perennial joys of summer at the beach.
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Burning
Tigris:The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
by Peter Balakian
A landmark history of the Armenian massacres of
the 1890s and the genocide of 1915--and America's
extraordinary response. |
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Dark Star Safari: Overland
from Cairo to Cape Town
by Paul Theroux
Theroux takes readers on the ultimate journey across
the world's most complex and mysterious continent.
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Feeding a Yen
by Calvin Trillin
A book of antic eating adventures, by a writer described
as being "to food writing what Chaplin was
to film acting." |
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Founding Fish
by John McPhee
The American shad provides the remarkable focus
of this book, its every specimen carrying its autobiography
within its scales and coursing through the water
routes of U.S. political history. |
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From the Land of Green
Ghosts
by Pascal Khoo Thwe
Despite his humble beginnings and the oppression
he faced, Thwe brings readers into a world forgotten
by the West, but one that readers will not soon
forget. |
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The
Gate
by Francois Bizot
Recounts the nightmare of Bizot's arrest and captivity
in rural Cambodia in 1971 on suspicion of being
an American spy. |
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Good Morning Midnight
by Chip Brown
This new, piercing biography of Guy Waterman reprises
Watrman's background as a Republican suburbanite
who became a born-again mountaineer and explores
the underlying demons that led to Waterman's death.
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Instructions
for Visitors; Life and Love in a French Town
by Helen Stevenson
Evoking the languid, sensual essence of Mediterranean
France, Instructions for Visitors is a very personal
revelation of the wonders and the difficulties of
relocating one's home -- and one's heart. |
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Inventing Japan
by Ian Buruma
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise,
Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span
of Japan s history, the period that saw as dramatic
a transformation as any country has ever known.
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Mountains
of the Mind
by Robert MacFarlane
How Desolate and Forbidding
Heights Were Transformed Into Experiences Of Indomitable
Spirit |
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Parting
the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
by Zachary Karabell
As Karabell shows, the building of the Suez Canal
was much more than a marvel of construction. Parting
the Desert details an extraordinary meeting
between East and West. of photos.
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Return
to Paris: A Memoir
by Colette Rossant
A coming-of-age story, a memoir of Colette's struggles
with her religious and cultural identity in a
rapidly changing post-war France. It is also laced
gracefully through with descriptions of great
meals and recipes.
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Seven Ages of Paris
by Alistair Horne
Horne's sweeping history begins with the reign of
the forceful Philippe Auguste in 1180 and ends with
the DeGaule era. |
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Untangling My Chopsticks:
A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
by Victoria Riccardi
In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun
and On Rue Tatin, here is a Broadway
Abroad travel memoir with plenty of food, but
this time set in the exotic, alluring city of
Kyoto.
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A
Venetian Affair
by Andrea Di Robilant
In this Romeo-and-Juliet tale of illicit love, a
discovery of a box of 18th-century love letters
leads to this true story of Andrea Memmo, a great
Venetian statesman, and a beautiful half-English
girl named Giustiniana Wynne. |
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Yoga for People Who
Can't Be Bothered
by Geoff Dyer
A chronicle of how Geoff Dyer learned to feel completely
at home in a state of perpetual arrival and departure.
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