Erin Byrne

Wings (eBook, ePUB)

Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Erin Byrne captures the essence of France through unique and authentic experiences in Wings from Victory, her collection of stories about travel in one of the world's most alluring countries. Some or her experiences come through serendipity, others via good fortune, still others by accident. But each time, Erin takes the experience, digs deeper, and discovers meaning from it. Each story demonstrates in a different way this idea put forth by Joseph Campbell:

The passage of the mythological hero may be overground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward-into the depths, where obscure resistances are overcome and long lost powers are revivified.

From Cézanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence to a tiny village in the Jura Mountains, from a cozy bistro on the Left Bank of Paris to a plain high above the Normandy beaches, Erin travels through France collecting stories, characters, tastes, and secrets that act as ingredients for change. She learns to trust her intuition after listening to Henri Cartier-Bresson's advice. After gazing at van Gogh's self-portrait, Erin finds a way to be more honest.

This book is about the gifts we all glean from our travels, and will inspire readers to unwrap their own images and impressions in a new way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Travelers' Tales
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609521141
• Artikelnr.: 44833781

Autorenporträt

Erin Byrne writes travel essays, poetry, fiction and screenplays. Her work has won numerous awards including three Grand Prize Solas Awards for Travel Story of the Year, the Reader’s Favorite Award, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist, and an Accolade Award for film. Erin is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France, editor of Vignettes & Postcards From Paris, Vignettes & Postcards From Morocco, and writer of The Storykeeper film. She is an occasional guest instructor at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris and on Deep Travel trips. Her screenplay, Siesta, is in pre-production in Spain, and she is working on the novel, The Red Notebook . You can visit her website at e-byrne.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Les Deux Garçons
Two Boys and a Bistro
Day Dreamer
Coasting Beyond Boyhood
2. Characters
The Rarest of Editions
Dear Madame Renaud
Don’t Think, A Message From Henri Cartier-Bresson
3. Tastes of Place
The Taste of This Place
A Rare Blend
Jurassic Cheese
4. Connections
French Connections
Vignettes & Postcards From Paris
Vincent’s Vision
5. The Mystique of Art
À Propos de Paris
Eye to Eye with van Gogh
Winged Victory
6. The Storykeeper
Mentalité Terrible
The Boy and His Shield
Storykeepers
7. Transformations
Bastille Day on the Palouse
Avé Métro
Deep Travel, Notre Dame
8. Secrets
The Secret of It
The Mirror of Montmartre
Wise Beams
9. Signs
In Vincent’s Footsteps
Signs
Duende in the Louvre
10. Belonging
Cézanne’s Salon des Refusés
Reconnaissance: Seeking Sainte Geneviève
Now, Fly
Publications and Awards
Acknowledgments