The Mountains of Paris - 9780870719813

The Mountains of ParisHow Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life\nAuthor(s): David Oates\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oregon State University, United States\nImprint: Oregon State University\nISBN-13: 9780870719813, 978-0870719813\nSynopsis\nLiving in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance. In The Mountains of Paris, he offers a technique of reimagining one's life story that might be available to anyone.\n\n The present tense of the book takes place during the seasons he spends in Paris, sharing an artist';s residency. It is a rare opportunity to consider what it means to be human, through time-stopping moments with music, art, and deep history. The past tense of the book offers memories that intrude into the bustle of Paris life: a Billy Graham crusade at age thirteen, a mountain pass, a love, a .