{"product_id":"the-memory-chalet-isbn-9780143119975","title":"The Memory Chalet","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as a Notable Book  of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinal reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony  Judt.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Judt's \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Chalet\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir unlike any other.  Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the  larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus route  becomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells all  come alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhood  through Paris, Prague, and points east to New York, where he found his  home. Judt brings his moral clarity and wit to bear on everything from  fast cars to radical politics and, finally, the devastating illness  that took his life. This book, composed when Judt was paralyzed and  unable physically to write, found its shape in the ordered rooms of a  Swiss Chalet of the mind: a warm refuge in the closing darkness of his  final years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudt's book, \u003ci\u003eIll Fares the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Ta-Nehisi Coates.\u003c\/p\u003e“[A] tremendously moving memorial to a first-class historian and essayist . . . humane, fearless, unsparingly honest.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Each of these beautifully crafted pieces presents a self-contained vignette. Together they form a picture of an age, seen through the prism of an extraordinary mind . . . Judt never pretended that the illness that befell him was a hidden blessing. 'Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it a nicer name.' But if tragedy cannot be redeemed it can sometimes be defied, as Judt confirms in this exquisitely graceful memoir of a happy life.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“More than a memoir, [\u003ci\u003eThe Memory Chalet \u003c\/i\u003eis] a bracing spiritual autobiography of a man whose lofty and old-fashioned goal, repeatedly realized in these pages, was to think for himself\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eand push each of us to do the same.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMilwaukee Journal-Sentinel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[B]oth an autobiography and a lovely little social history of the second half of the 20th century . . . all in a spare and nicely demotic prose.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTime \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Despite his stature as a 'public intellectual,' Judt's observations in this collection are more impressionistic than analytical. For the most part, he's not arguing points but simply re-savoring the things that once pleased him . . . This is a memorable collection from a memorable man.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBookPage \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTony Judt was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, as well as the founder and director of the Remarque Institute, dedicated to creating an ongoing conversation between Europe and the United States. He was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and many journals across Europe and the United States. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including \u003ci\u003eThinking the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Chalet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIll Fares the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e’s Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August 2010 at the age of sixty-two.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302611996901,"sku":"NP9780143119975","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143119975.jpg?v=1767740466","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-memory-chalet-isbn-9780143119975","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}