Frankie's Place: A Love Story Summary and Reviews

Frankie's Place: A Love Story
by Jim Sterba

Frankie's Place: A Love Story
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Author: Jim Sterba
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-06
ISBN: 0802141404
Number of pages: 273
Publisher: Grove Press

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Book Review: A Journalist's Heart
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the best kind of travel memoir -- it has recipes, witty anecdotes and characters, natural and social histories, and enchanting descriptions of the land, sea, and sky. Oh yes, and lessons in battling house mice, an overabundance of tomatoes, and the encroachment of crass non-natives. But mostly, it has a narrator whose personal contributions to all of the above make it an even richer experience. Sterba has a journalist's innate curiosity about everything, a journalist's objective stance, and a journalist's heart -- he knows, in other words, wehere the stories lie and he knows how to spin them. He makes you want to know the people as well as the place. Frankie's Place reminds me of Peter Mayle's Provence stories, only less contrived.

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