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"With humor and insight, Epstein recalls life's pivotal moments, inspiring us to grow along with him. Our own childhood memories flood back as we take our first steps toward independence and maturity with Epstein. He battles a blizzard alone, leads a handball team to victory, and perseveres in winning a long-sought prize. Adolescence finds him learning to drive and facing the Vietnam draft. Adulthood brings unemployment, blind dates, marriages, fatherhood, and the loss of his first child." "Life, says Epstein, is an exercise that cannot be planned. Building on the themes of his first two books, with an eye for the poetry of the everyday, he affirms our ability to glean from our own experiences a broadened awareness, to transform ourselves and our relationships again and again - through the "full panoply of possibility.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to live in Rome. In As the Romans Do, he celebrates the spirit of this stylish, dramatic, ancient city that formed the hub of a far-flung empire and introduced the Mediterranean culture to the rest of the world. He also reveals today's Roman men and women in all their appealing contradictions: their gregarious caffe culture; inborn artistic flair; passionate appreciation of good food; instinctive mistrust of technology; showy sex appeal; ingrained charm and expressiveness; surprisingly unusual attitudes toward marriage and religion; and much, much more.   A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular citiesThis vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to live in Rome. In As the Romans Do, he celebrates the spirit of this stylish, dramatic, ancient city that formed the hub of a far-flung empire and introduced the Mediterranean culture to the rest of the world. He also reveals today's Roman men and women in all their appealing contradictions: their gregarious caffe culture; inborn artistic flair; passionate appreciation of good food; instinctive mistrust of technology; showy sex appeal; ingrained charm and expressiveness; surprisingly unusual attitudes toward marriage and religion; and much, much more.