Educating Alice - $9.72 - Steinbach, Alice - 9780812973600

Educating Alice
Adventures Of A Curious Woman
Steinbach, Alice
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbachs greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and left home again. This time she roamed the world, taking lessons and courses in such things as French cooking in Paris, Border collie training in Scotland, traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto, and architecture and art in Havana. With warmth and wit, Steinbach guides us through the pleasures and perils of discovering how to be a student again. She also learns the true value of this second chance at educating herself: the opportunity to connect with and learn from the people she meets along the way.

BOOK REVIEWS
Highly recommended . . . The beauty of [Steinbachs] narrative . . . lies in her luminous descriptions. . . . But it is her perceptive looks into the lives and minds and hearts of the people she meets through her studies that bring her settings to life and make this collection of essays truly engaging.
Library Journal

Steinbach makes such a life look highly desirable. . . . Her stories are powerfully seductive to anyone whos ever been tempted to get up and go, following interests wherever they may lead.
Publishers Weekly

A delicious experience . . . This book will entertain, educate and perhaps inspire readers to make their own journeys.
-San Francisco Chronicle

"I loved Educating Alice....Alice Steinbach may visit some of the world's most popular tourist cities but she does not follow the ordinary tourist route. Oh no! Down the back alleys Alice Steinbach goes, slipping through side doors and riding on employees-only elevators; dropping huge, slippery salmon on the floor of the Ritz Escoffier Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise and charming retired geishas into showing her their prized kimonos, wrapped in rice paper and stowed in boxes in the attic. Ms. Steinbach must be who Henry James imagined when he advised novelists to try to become 'one upon whom nothing is lost.'"
Sarah Pritchard, author of Crackpots: A Novel

In these uncertain times, the smart thing to do is stay home and read Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman. Alice Steinbach has more fun than anybody, whether chasing sheep in Scotland, or taking cooking lessons at the Ritz in Paris, or swinging to a salsa beat in a down-at-the-heel cafe in Havanna, or taking a writing course in Prague, or studying landscape architecture in Provence, etc. etc. etc.--- Alices etceteras are limitless, and what all of us, surely, have always wanted to do ourselves. What is more, no matter what she does or who she sees or how hilarious the encounter, she is a lady to her toes."
Jane Geniesse, author of Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark

A brisk and companionate tour of the Paris Ritz, ancient streets of Kyoto, the Scottish Highlands, inner Prague and Renaissance Florence, in search of the secrets of French cooking, Japanese dance, sheepherding, writing and painting. Alice Steinbachs travel memoir serves up, in savory detail, the tricks and ingredients of these trades, even as she reveals steps in the intimate dance of an epistolary romance of her own.
Jean McGarry, Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0812973607
ISBN(13-digit): 9780812973600
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 070.92
Library of Congress: oc2007113069
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 289
Paper Weight (lb): .505 lb

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