Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the YearFinal reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt.
Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus route becomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells all come alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhood through Paris, Prague, and points east to New York, where he found his home. Judt brings his moral clarity and wit to bear on everything from fast cars to radical politics and, finally, the devastating illness that took his life. This book, composed when Judt was paralyzed and unable physically to write, found its shape in the ordered rooms of a Swiss Chalet of the mind: a warm refuge in the closing darkness of his final years.
- ISBN10 1101483938
- ISBN13 9781101483930
- Publish Date 25 October 2011 (first published 11 November 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Group
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English