About this title: An award-winning and critically acclaimed writer delivers a revelatory collection of linked autobiographical essays--part memoir, part family history--about the upheavals of European lives during World War II, his own intellectual development, and the universal language of art. Illustrated.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009-02-03
ISBN-13:9780743235983ISBN:0743235983
Description: Very Good. Some shelf wear on cover, pages in good reading condition. Ships promptly in a padded mailer w/ delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009-02-03
ISBN-13:9780743235983ISBN:0743235983
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780743235983ISBN:0743235983
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780743235983ISBN:0743235983
Description: Fine. Scribner 2009 SOFTCOVER. Prerelease version. Glossy pictorial wraps. From The Washington PostFrom The Washington Post's World/washingtonpost Reviewed by Carolyn See Disarming, charming, sweet-natured, large-hearted--all these adjectives describe this little book, and I imagine they describe the architect-author as well. "My Two Polish Grandfathers" is a collection of nine essays that touch upon terrible world events and conditions, but in the most subtle and pragmatic way. The work ... read more
"For anyone who is familiar with between-wars Poland this is a pleasant collection of reminiscences. Mr. Rybczynski, who appraises his family's history against the historical background writes fluently and is a pleasure to read. Overall it is what I would call a "good" book."
"A short and interesting narrative of the author's family's experiences in Europe and England and Canada during the first and second world wars - and his own education, leading to his becoming an author and architect. I wish their had been more detail on the two grandfathers' lives and experiences."
"This book is a collection of essays about the author's early architecture career and about his history as a polish emigree. The essays are tied together well, and arranged in a nearly linear fasion, which makes it read more like a memoir than an anthology."
"It's not often that a book reflecting on a turbulent time can co-exist with an 'imaginative life'. Although Rybczynski's family wasn't spared the trauma's of war time, they were clearly less scarred. The essays that front the book were, for me, more interesting than his musings on the inspirations of his career in architecture. Good writing and just enough history woven in to the family story."
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