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  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409009948
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Without Reservations

The Travels Of An Independent Woman




A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist took a year out to live abroad and see who she might become, away from the obligations of daily life.

American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in five cities - Paris, Venice, Milan, London and Oxford - when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had been divorced for a long time; she was a successful journalist. While there was nothing really wrong with her life, she felt restless. Could she live independently of her family, her friends, her career?

Steinbach searches for the answer to this provocative question firstly in Paris, where she finds a soul mate in a Japanese man; in Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to marry, and in the evocative cities of Oxford and Venice. Her trip is peppered with accounts of the exotic strangers she meets, her reflections on life and the observational postcards she wrote to herself during her year away.

  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409009948
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

About the author

Alice Steinbach

Alice Steinbach, whose work at the Baltimore Sun was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, has been a freelance writer since 1999. She has taught journalism and writing at Princeton University, Washington and Lee University, and Loyola College. She lives in Baltimore. She is author of WITHOUT RESERVATIONS and EDUCATING ALICE.

Praise for Without Reservations

Her writing is charming in its honesty and attention to detail.... A read that vibrates with enjoyment.

Paul Theroux, Good Book Guide

Anyone has who travelled alone can empathize...The reflective commentary accompanying her voyage of self-discovery reveals a warm and enthusiastic individual

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