Summary of Anthony Doerr's Four Seasons in Rome

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 We were moving from Boise, Idaho, to Rome, Italy. I had never been to Rome, but I imagined decadence, dark brown oil paintings, and emperors in sandals. I saw a coloring book I once got for Christmas that had pictures of ancient Rome.
#2 I was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and was given a studio, the keys to this apartment, and $1,300 a month to live on the Janiculum Hill. I was a literature fellow, and was required to write only.
#3 We arrive in Rome at midnight. We have no money, no food, and no place to sleep. We are exhausted and disoriented. We follow Laura, a neighbor who helps us find our way to a store that sells ground beef.
#4 In Italy, I hunt for anything recognizable and find labels illustrated with rabbits, sheep, and ponies. I help the boys find an ATM, and buy disposable diapers.

Sujets

• Europe
• My Last Duchess
• Italy

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 21 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669356455
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Anthony Doerr's Four Seasons In Rome
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We were moving from Boise, Idaho, to Rome, Italy. I had never been to Rome, but I imagined decadence, dark brown oil paintings, and emperors in sandals. I saw a coloring book I once got for Christmas that had pictures of ancient Rome.

#2

I was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and was given a studio, the keys to this apartment, and $1,300 a month to live on the Janiculum Hill. I was a literature fellow, and was required to write only.

#3

We arrive in Rome at midnight. We have no money, no food, and no place to sleep. We are exhausted and disoriented. We follow Laura, a neighbor who helps us find our way to a store that sells ground beef.

#4

In Italy, I hunt for anything recognizable and find labels illustrated with rabbits, sheep, and ponies. I help the boys find an ATM, and buy disposable diapers.

#5

I had come to Rome to continue writing my third book, a second novel about the German occupation of a village in Normandy between 1940 and 1944. I had brought fifty pages of prose and some photos of B-17s dropping firebombs.

#6

I write down a few sentences about gratitude and wonder. I open a notebook to an empty page. I try to put down a few sentences about gratitude, about wonder.

#7

We visited the Fontana di Trevi, a famous fountain in Rome, and the surrounding area. The fountain was built in 1690, and it had taken seventy-eight years to complete. The area was full of medieval houses and clotheslines, as well as little cars and scooters.

#8

I was buying Pampers at an Albertsons supermarket in Boise. Now I stood near the ghost of what was supposedly an amphitheater flooded regularly by the Emperor Augustus to stage mock naval battles. We stared at clothing shops and tried to imagine the keel of an imperial trireme slicing past above us.

#9

I try to get to work early in the morning, before the other staff members, so I can be alone. I paper one wall with photos of bombed-out cities. Saint-Lô, Dresden, and Hamburg. I read about the Allied assault on Germany, incendiaries, firestorms, and infernos.