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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
by Anthony Shadid
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0547134665
- ISBN 13
- 9780547134666
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2012. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in an As New jacket. Spine tail lightly bumped, otherwise pristine inside and out. Nor from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 311 pages.
Synopsis
“Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I’ve read.” — Philip Caputo, Washington Post In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family’s ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather’s once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in its wake. So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist’s wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house’s renewal alongside the history of his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East. This paperback edition includes an afterword by the journalist Nada Bakri, Anthony Shadid’s wife, reflecting on his legacy. “A poignant dedication to family, to home, and to history . . . Breathtaking.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Entertaining, informative, and deeply moving . . . House of Stone will stand a long time, for those fortunate enough to read it.” — Telegraph (London)
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- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- Author
- Anthony Shadid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0547134665
- ISBN 13
- 9780547134666
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- February 2012
- Keywords
- autobiography, biography, memoirs, families, emigration, immigration, migration, Lebanon, Middle East
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Middle East;
- Size
- 8vo
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