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Memory ChaletTony Judt

Memory Chalet

Tony Judt
2010233 pages
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"'The Memory Chalet' is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation 'was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution.' A series of road trips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but…

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6 editions
  • Other · English · 2014
    Penguin Random House · 9781473522503
  • Other · English · 2011
    The Memory Chalet
    Penguin Books · 9780143119975
  • Other · English · 2011
    Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9780099555599
  • Other · English · 2010
    The Memory Chalet
    William Heinemann · 9780434020966
  • Other · English · 2010
    The Memory Chalet
    Penguin Press · 226 pages · 9781594202896
  • Other · English · 2010
    Penguin Random House · 9781446409343
Civilization, modern, 20th centuryTwentieth centuryModern CivilizationAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisSozialer WandelWeltwirtschaftGlobalisierungBiography