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A Sense of Direction audiobook
- By: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
- Narrator: Erik Singer
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
- Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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A Sense of Direction Audiobook Summary
In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken invitation to join him on an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, he grabs his sneakers, glad of the chance to be committed to something and someone.
Irreverent, moving, hilarious, and thought-provoking, A Sense of Direction is Lewis-Kraus’s dazzling riff on the perpetual war between discipline and desire, and its attendant casualties. Across three pilgrimages and many hundreds of miles – the thousand-year-old Camino de Santiago, a solo circuit of eighty-eight Buddhist temples on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and, together with his father and brother, an annual mass migration to the tomb of a famous Hasidic mystic in the Ukraine – he completes an idiosyncratic odyssey to the heart of a family mystery and a human dilemma: How do we come to terms with what has been and what is – and find a way forward, with purpose?
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A Sense of Direction Full Details
| Narrator | Erik Singer |
| Length | 11 hours 36 minutes |
| Author | Gideon Lewis-Kraus |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781101576090 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Sense of Direction is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: essays, travel, pilgramage, restless, young, hopeful, history, Berlin, freedom, pursuit, Spain, discipline, desire, travel writing, autobiographies, travelogue, travel gifts, travel book, memoirs, biographies, fiction, novels, travel books, biography, memoir, bucket list, fiction books, autobiography, travel diary, travels, biographies of famous people, books fiction, travel memoirs, autobiography books, memoir books, travel memoir, travelogues, biographies and memoirs, travelogue books, traveling books, writing, adventure, journalism, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, Travel, Special Interest, Religious The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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The publisher of the A Sense of Direction is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781101576090.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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