The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life

by David Oates

Book Overview

Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance. He asks: What is the meaning of this tremendousness?

In long years of mountaineering Oates fought the self-loathing that had infused him as the gay kid in the Baptist pew. And in The Mountains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870719815
• ISBN13: 9780870719813
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"