Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes
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Author: Frances MayesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08-26
ISBN: 0767916069
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Broadway
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Book Review: A Great Book - At the Right Time
Summary: 4 Stars
Two years ago I would have never bought this book or if received as a gift I'd have chucked it. I'm history-action adventure-fantasy-sci fi-war kind of guy. If it don't go boom I normally don't bother. And this book is even less appealing in it's lack of character development, plot, or dramatic tension. It's all about an upper middle class white chic from Frisco academia living out an expat dream renovating a house in some chunk of Italy I've barely heard about. And cooking everything in sight. But courtesy of the U.S. Government, I'm not privy to a lot of luxuries right now. So reading this book that evokes a luxurious simplicity in a spectacular setting and wonderful food is just overwhelming. Reading about the food without access to an Italian restaraunt or incredients - its worse than porn. So if your imagination can handle what amounts to a written invitation to a person's house and a write up of sumptuous Italian or Italian inspired grub get this book. And don't but the BS other reviewers say about her being condescending - she never once talks trash about the natives. Mostly she's in culture shock or even in awe. And if she's occasionally pretentious, well she is an academic, isn't she? If the recipies are half as good as they read I can forgive that and you can too. So deal with that. And if you can't, I recommend J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Bernard Cornwell, Douglass Preston and Lincoln Childs, Warren Murphy, etc (too name a few). Their books got boom.
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