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Print: $20.95 Travels in Spain and The Netherlands, with side trips to Paris and Torino. Comments (more often meditations) on restaurants, hotels, the landscape, the people, and their history; on paintings and music, museums and cathedrals; and politics; and language; and books...
240 pages; b&w photos.
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Print: $20.00 Reflections on daily life, politics, restaurants, art, and history during two months in Rome. With a detailed listing of restaurants. 258 pages; b&w photos by the author.
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Print: $14.97 Letters home from four weeks in the Netherlands, Piemonte, Budapest, and Vienna: food, art, music, and the companionship of friends and strangers. 128 pages.
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Print: $20.00 Growing up in Berkeley, 1935-1945, and on a hardscrabble farm in Sonoma county, 1945-1952; college in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berkeley; early marriage and children; beginning to learn about Modernism, writing, and the composition of music. The first thirty years, 1935-1964. 212 pages; b&w photos.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $10.00 Charles Shere's second piano sonata is a major work whose three movements, running nearly an hour long, gradually reveal an inner logic and a brittle clarity that can only be called phenomenological.
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Print: $11.97 Charles Shere's blog The Eastside View ranges among cuisine, art, music, books, and travel. This (2007) installment includes among other things notes on a month's walking in The Netherlands, on restaurants in Portland, on the theater season in Ashland, and a long review of Alex Ross's book The Rest is Noise.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $7.50 The account of a walk from Lake Geneva to Nice, 400 miles through the French Alps, taken by a man in his seventies, a sidekick in his sixties, and a 15-year-old grandson. Appendix describes gear, accommodations, and a bibliography. With black and white photos.
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