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Ferenc Máté

The Tuscan TrilogyThe Hills of Tuscany, A Vineyard in Tuscany, and The Wisdom of Tuscany

Nearing a million copies in print, the three memoirs of the Máté family building a dream life in sun-

drenched Tuscany have entranced readers with their witty, poignant, and poetically personal accounts. The first book covers their new town, the neighbors, and of course food and wine; the second, restoring an abandoned thirteenth-century friary and starting a now world-renowned wine estate; the third, the indispensable life lessons they learned along the way. The Mátés’ story will inspire us all.

“Charming, lively. . . . Titanic in appeal.”—Washington Post

“Will delight the senses and rekindle anyone’s sense of adventure.”—Martha Stewart Radio

“Muscular prose . . . like Paul Bunyan on a Tuscan holiday.”—The New Yorker

“Made to order for an open-minded American traveler.”—Rick Steves

“Readers share a feeling of accomplishment and pride when their Syrah is voted ‘Italian Red Wine of the Year.’ ”—New York Times

FeReNC MáTé is the author of the New York Times Notable Book A Vineyard in Tuscany and numerous nautical classics. He lives with his family in Tuscany.

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5.750 3 8.50 • 794 pages • MEMOIR/TRAVEL/FOOD & WINE

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A L B AT R O S S

Ferenc Máté

Sea of lost DreamsA Dugger/Nello Novel

It’s 1921 Mexico. Ne’er-do-well sea captain Dugger and his sardonic friend Nello break out of jail and set sail for a new

beginning in Tahiti. Aboard are two mysterious passengers: a beautiful escapee from an Irish convent, searching for her twin brother; and a French master spy, hunting the leader of an anticolonial rebellion. But both are searching for more than they admit to—both have enormous secrets of the heart. After a hurricane-battered sea voyage, Gauguin’s beguiling Tahitian daughter pilots them through a mountainous jungle of recent infanticide and cannibalism. Aiding the rebels, they provoke the French navy’s unleashed revenge in a breathtak-ing chase through violent black squalls and treacherous reefs. Friendship, love, loyalty, and faith are in a crucible. The exhila-rating quest unravels amid the uprising of a doomed culture and the startling convergence of the characters’ destinies.

FeReNC MáTé is the author of the New York Times Notable Book A Vineyard in Tuscany and numerous nautical classics. He lives with his family in Tuscany.

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50 3 80 • 268 pages • FICTION

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AT L A S & C O .

Tim Butcher

Chasing the DevilA Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene

Of all the anarchic and war-torn African nations, none is more forbidding than Liberia, the land that nurtured

child soldiers, the violent trade in “blood diamonds,” even ritual murder. Graham Greene, in search of extreme adven-ture, ventured through its dense jungles to write the travel classic Journey Without Maps; three-quarters of a century later, Tim Butcher decided to follow Greene’s footsteps, only to find the path even more ominous and overgrown than in his predecessor’s day. Among the devils he encounters are masked sorcerers whose magical powers depend on canni-balism and missionaries long forgotten in the hinterland he traverses. Butcher, a former African correspondent for the London Telegraph and author of Blood River, his best-selling account of a dramatic journey through the Congo, has pro-duced in this thrilling sequel a book that The Independent hails as “fascinating, harrowing, and eventful.”

TIM BuTCHeR is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. His first book, Blood River, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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A. M. Horowitz

Stolen MasterpieceThe Secret Story of a Painting in World War II

On a June day in 1944, a Nazi agent entered a warehouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Inside he discovered the

hidden art collection of a Jewish family. Among the paint-ings was a vivid seascape of children playing on a shore by the great German-Jewish impressionist Max Liebermann. The Nazi agent confiscated the painting, and its Jewish owners never saw it again. Today it hangs on the walls of a state museum in Munich. Stolen Masterpiece is the remarkable story of how it got there. Irrational hatred wasn’t the only cause of the Holocaust; the looting of Jewish property was a powerful motive that has been largely unexplored. In this astonishing narrative, crowded with unscrupulous art deal-ers, thieves, and—in all likelihood—the Nazi who arrested Anne Frank, the greatest crime in human history is made real through the fate of one of its artifacts.

A. M. HOROWITz is a specialist in the Nazis’ looting of art. A recipient of a Silver Key from the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, she also holds an MFA from Goucher College. She lives in New Jersey.

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5.50 3 8.250 • 224 pages • HISTORY

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Nina Godiwalla

SuitsA Woman on Wall Street

Farfromhome,anambitiouswomanfightstomakehermark on Wall Street.

While others in Nina Godiwalla’s Persian-Indian immigrant community were fulfilling their parents’ dreams, her fierce ambition pulled her from

Houston to New York to become a banker on Wall Street. A vibrant snapshot of a family with big dreams, Suits reveals how much we have been condi-tioned to trade for success.

NINA GODIWALLA has written for the Washington Post. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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AT L A S & C O .

Douglas Coupland

Marshall McLuhanYou Know Nothing of My Work!

Acracklinglookatthephilosopherwhosefoundingideaswereatonceobscureandeerilyprophetic.

Douglas Coupland, whose iconic novel Generation X was a “McLuhan-esque” account of our culture in fictional form, has written a compact

biography of the uncanny prophet whose vision of the global village—now known as the Internet—has come to pass in the twenty-first century.

DOuGLAS COuPLAND is an acclaimed author and visual artist. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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5.50 3 8.250 • 224 pages • MEMOIR


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Sam Miller

Blue Guide India

This seminal new work covers the best of India in one detailed, fully illustrated volume. History, culture, religion, architecture, and archaeology are all covered, with practical

touring tips, to provide a framework for understanding and enjoying this thrilling and diverse subcontinent.

A journalist based in India, SaM Miller is the author of Delhi, Adventures in a Megacity.

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50 3 7.80 • Illustrations throughout • 800 pages • TRAVEL/ASIA

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ellen Grady

Blue Guide SicilyeiGhth edition

Ellen Grady’s updated, accessible guide puts the layers of Sicily’s spectacular landscape, superb cuisine, and fascinating history into context to help independent visitors get the

most from this important destination.

ellen Grady, an author and tour guide, lives in Sicily on the slopes of Mount Etna.

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50 3 7.80 • Color illustrations throughout • 500 pages • TRAVEL/ITALY

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NOVEMBER

alta Macadam

Blue Guide Florence tenth edition

A fully updated edition of this detailed guide to the art, architecture, and history of Flor-ence, Alta Macadam’s Blue Guide Florence presents the city accessibly and in detail to

experts, students, and independent travelers.

alta MacadaM lives in Fiesole, above Florence.

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50 3 7.80 • Illustrations throughout • 400 pages • TRAVEL/ITALY

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C H e S S I N F O R M AT I O N A N D R e S e A R C H C e N T e R

Grandmaster Lev Alburt and Al Lawrence

Chess for the Gifted and BusyA Short but Comprehensive Course from Beginner to Expert

Studies tout the many benefits of chess for all ages. Want to learn chess or teach it to your child but are busy

with lots of other activities as well? This innovative book is designed for you.

You choose the level you want to achieve. Want to go from absolute beginner to neighborhood champ? Complete Level I in an afternoon, play some practice games—and you’ll quickly be saying “checkmate”! When you’re ready to become a tough tournament competitor, Level II cuts through the mysteries of strategy and tactics to show you just what you need to know. And if you decide that you won’t settle for anything less than being an expert, near the top levels of tournament chess, Level III delivers all the essential knowledge!

Chess for the Gifted and Busy is a condensed but comprehensive summary of the entire Comprehensive Chess Course series, also available from W. W. Norton.

Three-time U.S. Champion and Grandmaster Lev ALBuRT is one of the world’s most sought-after teachers. Fellow New Yorker AL LAWReNCe is an award-winning educator and chess writer, a recipient of the Chess Journalist of the Year award.

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G e O R G e B R A z I L L e R , I N C .

Meyer Schapiro

Modern Art19th and 20th Centuries

RevISeD eDITION

Considered the master of the essay, Meyer Schapiro approached scholarship with a great deal of imaginative

historical perception, as well as an “unashamed passion for the works of art before him,” rendering his writings highly engaging and appealing to a broad range of readers.

A rich diversity of writing can be found within this collection, which offers studies of individual artists (Cézanne, Picasso, Mondrian, and Seurat) as well as essays on the reception and social meanings of modern art. Yet, even in his most aesthetic analyses, Schapiro never lost sight of the heroic efforts of the individual artists and of the cultural contexts in which their works were made and received.

Modern Art won the National Book Critics Circle Award (1978) and the Mitchell Prize for Art History (1979) and was a nominee for a National Book Award (1979).

MeYeR SCHAPIRO (1904–1996) was a prolific art historian, critic, and teacher. His notable titles include Romanesque Art, The Unity of Picasso’s Art, and Theory and Philosophy of Art. ADRIeNNe BAxTeR BeLL is an assistant professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.


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K A L e S P R e S S

Rebiya Kadeer with Alexandra Cavelius

Dragon FighterOne Woman’s Epic Struggle for Peace with ChinaINTRODuCTION BY HIS HOLINeSS THe DALAI LAMA

“Remarkable life.”—New York Times

“Breathing fire.”—Economist

Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge, stands the four-thousand-year-old homeland of a peaceful people: the Uyghurs. Their culture is filled with music, dance, family, and love of tradition passed down by storytelling through the ages.

For millennia they have survived clashes in the shadows of China, Russia, and Central Asia. Rebiya Kadeer’s courage, intellect, morality, and sacrifice give hope to the nearly eleven million Uyghurs worldwide on whose behalf she speaks as an indomitable world leader for the freedom of her people and the sovereignty of her nation.

Her life story is one of legend: as a refugee child, as a poor housewife, as a multimillionaire, as a high official in China’s National People’s Congress, as a political prisoner in solitary confinement for two of nearly six years, and now as a political dissident living in Washington, DC, exiled from her own land.

ReBIYA KADeeR is the president of the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association. She is devoted to the principles of nonviolence. Recognized as an unofficial head of state, she regularly meets with world leaders.

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6.1250 3 9.250 • 16 pages of photographs • 426 pages • MEMOIR


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“Extremelyimportant”(Wall Street Journal)and“thrilling”(Washington Post).

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Jeremy Tredinnick

XinjiangChina’s Central Asia

Abrand-newculturalandhistoricalguidetoChina’swesternmostregionthatexploresbothwell-traveledSilkRoadroutesandlittle-exploredmountainranges.

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was for centuries subject to reli-gious and economic influences from India, Greece, Persia, and of course

China. Yet Xinjiang’s appeal extends beyond the Silk Road legacy. This Autono-mous Region is home to thirteen nationalities, harsh and bewitching desert regions, and diverse archaeological and cultural treasures.

JeReMY TReDINNICK is a China-based writer, photographer, editor, and inveterate Asian explorer.


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60 3 8.250 • 240 color illustrations and 14 maps • 480 pages • TRAVEL/ASIA

JANUARY

Bradley Mayhew and Calum MacLeod

UzbekistanThe Golden Road to Samarkand

Aninvocationtostudycitiesthataremorethan2,500yearsoldandtobeholdthelegaciesofAlexander,GenghisKhan,andTimur.

Let the images of ancient Silk Road caravanserais and trading centers cap-ture the imagination on your journey through this excellent guide to the

wonders of Uzbekistan, its history, politics, culture, and attractions. The pre-cious mosaics, ribbed turquoise cupolas, and majestic minarets that define each skyline will leave you spellbound.

BRADLeY MAYHeW is based in Montana. CALuM MacLeOD is the China correspondent for USA Today in Beijing.


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5.50 3 80 • 85 color illustrations and 23 maps • 384 pages • TRAVEL/ASIA


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Luce Boulnois with Bradley Mayhew

Silk RoadMonks, Warriors & MerchantsuPDATeD eDITION

Luce Boulnois has poured a lifetime of prodigious, passion-ate scholarship into this seminal book. She explores the

encounter between East and West across the vast continental expanse that separates the Mediterranean world from the Chinese one. She unravels in a clear and compelling way the complex threads that weave the history of great overland trade routes, which allowed the transmission of ideas and beliefs, techniques and works of art, helping to shape the civilizations that flourished along the way. She loves silk, its history, and all its paths to Europe. But the importance of Central Asia is not just a thing of the past, and the author discusses its significance in the modern world in cultural and geopolitical terms, including the implications of the most recent events taking place there.

For the armchair traveler or the adventurous trail blazer, this “pièce de résistance” of Silk Road literature is guaranteed to satisfy.

World-renowned French historian LuCe BOuLNOIS (deceased) researched Chinese and Russian archives to unravel the Silk Road’s mysteries. Her timeless account is supplemented with current travel advice by BRADLeY MAYHeW, a Montana-based author of acclaimed Silk Road guidebooks and a veteran traveler.


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60 3 8.250 • 57 color illustrations and 17 maps • 576 pages • HISTORY/ASIA


JANUARY

Asumptuoushistoricalsurveyof“TheRoad”thatalsooffersitineraries,practicalities,andthewhereaboutsoftop-ratedrelatedmuseumcollections.

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Amy Newman

Dear Editor“Amy Newman is one of the most gifted and original poetswritinginAmericatoday.”—MarthaCollins

Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a poet seeking publication for her collection about

chess, sainthood, and the poet’s lonely childhood. Taken individually, the poems display a dazzling originality; together, they form an exquisite explora-tion of memory and longing.

AMY NeWMAN has published three previous collections. She is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University.

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5.50 3 80 • 64 pages • POETRY

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P e R S e A B O O K S

Patrick Rosal

Boneshepherds“Laced with a hopefulness born not just of Patrick Rosal’stremendousgiftsasapoet,butofhishumanity.” —TerranceHayes

In his third collection of poems, Patrick Rosal continues his rhythmic march through a world in which violence and beauty mix all too often—a paradoxi-

cal world in which the music of Chopin gives way to a knifing, yet the funk of homelessness cannot stifle the urge for human connection.

PATRICK ROSAL’s collections are Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive and My American Kundiman. The son of Filipino immigrants, he lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

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5.50 3 80 • 80 pages • POETRY

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Meg Kearney

The Girl in the MirrorA Novel

Lizzie McLane, the adopted poet-heroine of the widely acclaimed The Secret of Me, is now a high school senior,

excited about her future: meeting boys, college, and finally finding her birthmother. Then, on the day a letter from her adoption agency arrives, her adoptive father unexpectedly dies. Lizzie, lost in grief, turns to alcohol and the wrong kind of friends, and her life begins to spiral out of control. Loved ones try to help, but only in her poems and journals can Lizzie make sense of the hurt and her relentless curiosity about her birthmother.

I looked in the mirror . . . Who was that girl staring at me, blood on her blouse, black under her swollen eyes? I don’t know you, I said out loud. I don’t know you, she said back.

The Girl in the Mirror is a story about love and identity—brave, vulnerable, and compelling.

MeG KeARNeY is the author of The Secret of Me, for young adults. She teaches at Pine Manor College and lives in New Ipswich, New Hampshire.

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8.3750 3 8.250 • 176 pages • FICTION/YOUNG ADULT

JANUARY

Anadoptedteen’ssearchforherbirthmotherisovershadowedbya wrenchingloss,dramaticallytoldthroughherpoemsandjournals.

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P u S H C A RT P R e S S

Bill Henderson, editor, with the Pushcart Prize editors

The Pushcart Prize XXXVIBest of the Small Presses

2012 eDITION

“As ever, an essential barometer for spotting literary trends and for writers figuring out where to send the

next submission. And, as ever, essential, period,” said Kirkus Reviews about last year’s Pushcart Prize XXXV. “An exciting overview of American literature,” noted Booklist, and Pub-lishers Weekly added, “A monumental year.”

In Pushcart Prize XXXVI more than sixty selections of memoirs, poetry, essays, and short stories have been picked from thousands of nominations by Pushcart Press staff editors and hundreds of small presses.

This year Michael Waters and Laura Kasischke will serve as guest poetry editors. The result: “The most creative, generous, and democratic of any of the annual volumes” (Rick Moody).

Among its numerous awards, the Pushcart Prize has been chosen for the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble “Writers for Writers” Award and the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement recognition.

BILL HeNDeRSON is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of several memoirs, including the recently published All My Dogs: A Life. He lives in New York.

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5.250 3 8.50 • 600 pages • LITERATURE


NOVEMBER

ThemosthonoredliteraryseriesinAmericacelebrates thirty-sixyearsofcontinuouspublication.

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T H e Q u A N T u C K L A N e P R e S S

Steven Serafin, editor

BAM: The Collected Works

BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) is at once the oldest performing arts center in the country and

a renowned nexus for contemporary global and local culture. From its opening night in 1861, BAM has forged an unparalleled artistic legacy, emerging in the latter part of twentieth century as the preemi-nent stage for the most visionary performers of the age. Its standard of excellence has defined and sup-ported the institution through times of triumph as well as turmoil. This strikingly illustrated overview of BAM provides a narrative and visual chronicle of the institution’s history and the countless artists inte-gral to its identity, including Enrico Caruso, Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, Bill T. Jones, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Robert Lepage, William Christie, Mark Morris, Sam Mendes, and many oth-ers who continue to inspire in the new millennium.

STeveN SeRAFIN, a leading authority on the arts, is the editor of Continuum Encyclopedias of American and British Literature and Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century. He lives in New York City.

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90 3 120 • 300 photographs, 200 in color • 384 pages •

PHOTOGRAPHY

SEPTEMBER

Alushandprofuselyillustratedhistoryofthecountry’s oldestperformingartscenter.

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Reese Palley

The AnswerWhy Only Mini Nuclear Power Plants Can Save the World

Reese Palley argues that wind, solar, and hydroelectric power—all of which have large CO2-emitting footprints—

are not the answer needed to make meaningful changes in our disastrous warming trend. Nor, for both economic and political reasons, can large nuclear power plants be built in time.

The usual response to looming disaster is to throw ever-larger bulwarks into the mix, but the central theme of this book argues that we can only respond fast enough by radically reducing the scale of nuclear plants. The only sensible answer, which the author backs up with exhaustive research, is the construction and deployment of container-sized nuclear gen-erators distributed throughout the world, producing clean energy at the local level, getting us off the worst of our fossil-fuel gluttony within a decade.

ReeSe PALLeY is a polymath whose recent books include Concrete: A Seven-Thousand-Year History and Wooden Ships & Iron Men: The Art of Thomas Hoyne. He lives in Philadelphia.

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50 3 80 • 30 photographs • 165 pages • SCIENCE

SEPTEMBER

Aboldanduncompromisingargumentinsupportofatechnology thatcanendourdependenceonfossilfuels now.

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Leonard Freed

Leonard Freed: The ItalianseSSAY BY MICHAeL MILLeR

Early in his long career, photographer Leonard Freed discovered Little Italy in New York City and

became enchanted with Italians. From then until his death in 2006 he made countless trips to Italy, where he produced some of the most memorable images of the people in their environment. He captured the joys of love, childhood, marriage, and the celebration of family and food. Freed’s Italians revel in the poetry of everyday life. Whether they’re happy or sad, we can’t miss their exuberance. Nor can we overlook their pic-turesque surroundings.

Freed was a longtime member of the prestigious photo-cooperative Magnum. His work on postwar Europe and the civil rights movements in the United States is legendary. Among his many published books are Leonard Freed: Photographs 1954–1990, Worldview, and Black in White America, recently reissued after forty years.

MICHAeL MILLeR is the editor and publisher of the Berkshire Review. He divides his time between Italy and Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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9.750 3 11.250 • 190 duotone photographs • 224 pages • PHOTOGRAPHY

OCTOBER

Celebratingthe150thanniversaryofthefoundingoftheItalianRepublic,thisbeautiful,bilingualvolumecaptureslifeinItalyoverthelastfiftyyears.

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Tom Armstrong

A Singular VisionArchitecture Art Landscape

After a fire destroyed his colonial revival house on Fisher’s Island, Tom Armstrong and his wife

commissioned Thomas Phifer and Partners to design a spectacular modernist steel and glass house on the same site, fulfilling Mr. Armstrong’s dream of living in a garden surrounded by art. Beginning with the first house, this book takes us through the fire, the selection of an architect, the building of the new house, and the acquisition of furnishings and art. Throughout we encounter designs and artwork by such notables as Marcel Breuer, Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Sarrinen, Mark di Suvero, Isamu Noguchi, Betty Woodman, Alfred Leslie, Leon Polk Smith, Terry Winters, and a host of others. We also become privy to the thinking of an inventive gar-dener whose meticulous planning has resulted in an extraordinary setting for architecture and art and is open to the public during the summer months.

TOM ARMSTRONG, the former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art (and three other art museums), is the chairman of the Garden Conservancy. He lives in New York City and Fisher’s Island.

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