Without Reservations

The Travels Of An Independent Woman

Alice Steinbach

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Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
15 February 2011

Travel writing

A woman takes 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 four cities - Paris, Venice, 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. Colourful, inspiring and beautifully told, Without Reservations will take the reader on a unique voyage of discovery into a woman's life, as she evolves a new one.

By: Alice Steinbach
Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 193g
ISBN: 9780857500342
ISBN 10: 0857500341
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 February 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alice Steinbach's work at the BALTIMORE SUN was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1985. She was appointed the 1998-99 McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is currently a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Reviews for Without Reservations: The Travels Of An Independent Woman

'In this engaging travelogue, Steinbach, a Pulitzer-prize winning writer reeling with empty-nest syndrome, travels to Europe to 'find herself' and assert her long-dormant independence...lively and entertaining' * Booklist * 'Lively and entertaining' * Amazon.com *