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 explores 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. With intimacy and depth, she immerses us in places waiting to be experienced and some that may be more than we were up for. Each voyage leads to revelations about her search for solitude, adventure, and a longing for home.
Format: Hardback
Length: 336 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: 546g
Dimension: 150 x 223 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781609522087
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