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In September 2008, Tony Judt was diagnosed with ALS ... this memoir, “The Memory Chalet.” Food, cars, buses, trains, boats, words — Judt, who grew up in postwar Britain, remembers his ...

In his short memoir, The Memory Chalet, dictated at the end of his life as he lay immobilized from motor neuron disease, the historian Tony Judt three times uses the word solipsism. It's a curious and ...

The late historian Tony Judt dictated The Memory Chalet during his final months. An aggressive degenerative disease had rendered him immobile and he spent his long sleepless nights recalling his ...

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In September 2008, Tony Judt was diagnosed with ALS ... this memoir, “The Memory Chalet.” Food, cars, buses, trains, boats, words — Judt, who grew up in postwar Britain, remembers his ...

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THE MEMORY CHALET By Tony Judt Penguin Press, $25.95, 226 pages When the Anglo-American historian Tony Judt died in August at the age of 62, he had been living for the previous two years in the ...