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001 2010283600
003 DLC
005 20110417081632.0
008 101117s2010 nyu 000 1deng d
010 $a 2010283600
020 $a9781594202896
020 $a1594202893
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn659764691
040 $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$dZGX$dMR0$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aCB425$bJ83 2010
082 00 $a909.82$222
100 1 $aJudt, Tony.
245 14 $aThe memory chalet /$cTony Judt.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2010.
300 $axiv, 226 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $a"'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 to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt's attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet-a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory."--Dust jacket flap.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern$y20th century.
650 0 $aTwentieth century.
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y21st century$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010283600-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010283600-d.html