Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

by John Berger

Book Overview

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta , Booker Prize-winning author John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes and dreams. With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous , we are given to see the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679737146
• ISBN13: 9780679737148
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"