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continental divide; Paula Fox's new memoir recounts her adventures as a young reporter in postwar Europe.(The Coldest Winter)(Book Review)
Byline: Melanie Rehak
In the summer of 1946, after a miserable stint as a waitress in the Catskills, Paula Fox set sail for England on a "minimally converted" wartime troop carrier in search of adventure and, like any self-respecting 22-year-old, in search of herself. Her incantatory new memoir chronicles the year she spent traveling the ruined postwar continent as a stringer for a British news service. From "grimy and desolate" London and "bruised and forlorn" Paris, Fox moves on, in perhaps the most affecting section of The Coldest Winter (Henry Holt), to the frigid remains of Warsaw-a city whose citizens are waiting for the spring thaw to reveal the corpses of those killed in the uprising, but where Chopin ...
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