Footfalls in Memory: Reflections from Solitude - Hardcover

Waite, Terry

 
9780385488624: Footfalls in Memory: Reflections from Solitude
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385488629 ISBN 13: 9780385488624
Verlag: Doubleday, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

For the first year of Terry Waite's solitary confinement in Beirut he was given nothing to read. During those days not only did he write his autobiography in his head, but he also attempted to remember the books, poems and prayers he had read during his life.



Eventually his guards mellowed and he was given books. He received a wide variety ranging from Herodotus to novels.



Now, Terry Waite has collected together selections from the books he remembered, the books he received and the books he wished he had been given. This selection provokes memories of childhood, travels and captivity as he vividly recalls personal stories and anecdotes and as he takes the reader down the corridors of his memory.



Footfalls in Memory, through the works of Solzhenitsyn, T.S. Eliot, William Styron, John Bunyan, Dostoevsky, Irina Ratushinskaya and many others, plus extracts from the Bible, and the Book of Common Prayer, gives another fascinating insight into a life illuminated by literature of all kinds.

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t year of Terry Waite's solitary confinement in Beirut he was given nothing to read. During those days not only did he write his autobiography in his head, but he also attempted to remember the books, poems and prayers he had read during his life. <br><br><br><br>Eventually his guards mellowed and he was given books. He received a wide variety ranging from Herodotus to novels.<br><br><br><br>Now, Terry Waite has collected together selections from the books he remembered, the books he received and the books he wished he had been given. This selection provokes memories of childhood, travels and captivity as he vividly recalls personal stories and anecdotes and as he takes the reader down the corridors of his memory.<br><br><br><br><i>Footfalls in Memory,</i> through the works of Solzhenitsyn, T.S. Eliot, William Styron, John Bunyan, Dostoevsky, Irina Ratushinskaya and many others, plus extracts from the Bible, and the <i>Book of Common Prayer,</i> gives an

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385488629
ISBN 13 
9780385488624
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Anzahl der Seiten
189
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