Marcia DeSanctis
A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life
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Marcia DeSanctis' memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home. It spans the globe and half a lifetime, from a dreary Moscow hotel room in 1983 to a West Texas trail in 2020. She encounters spies, angels, leopards, shoes, rattlesnakes, a random head of state, and ghosts of her past. Each voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, adventure, and longing for home.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 254 pages
Publication date: 16 June 2022
Publisher: Travelers' Tales, Incorporated
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.
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 were 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.
Weight: 382g
Dimension: 133 x 203 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781609522063
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