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Title: Desiring Italy : Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture by Susan Cahill ISBN: 0-449-91080-6 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Desiring Italy
Comment: In her collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American authors writing about Italy, Powers (The Brooklyn Reader, LJ 12/93) has chosen the somber, brooding poetry of the Romantics'Robert Browning, Byron, and Shelley'and the self-reflective contemporary verses of Joseph Brodsky, Richard Wilbur, and Charles Wright. She represents the American and British confrontation with Italian manners through two short stories (by Malamud and Wharton) and in excerpts from the fiction of Forster, James, and John Mortimer, among others. Conversely, Cahill (Wise Women, LJ 5/1/96), whose selections are exclusively by women, has included the ballads of Francesca Alexander and a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Focusing on the effect of Italy's sensual pageant on visitors' emotional and psychological makeup, she selects the fiction of Francine Prose, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Shirley Hazzard. Travel literature forms the largest segment of both anthologies. Both collections preface each entry with bio-bibliographical information, but Cahill adds, as epilog "for the literary traveler," a fascinating contemporary walking tour of the places mentioned in each selection. She also includes a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These complementary anthologies are fine additions to the travel collections of public libraries and academic collections supporting the travel literature genre.'
Rating: 5
Summary: As aesthetic and eccletic as the Italians themselves!
Comment: This book is a treasure chest, a real find! Susan Cahill gives us here a fabulously artistic collection of woman's writings, all of which are centered around Italy and Italian experiences. The result is a resplendent patchwork of thoughts, ideas, articles, recipes, facts, stories... great writings, which explore various aspects of that paradise on earth and its inhabitants that we all know as Italy and the Italians. This book makes a great travel companion, whether you are traveling or not, or a great souvenir, in case you read it only once you are back. I highly recommend it not only for its literary side but because it very astutely portrays the multi-faceted, highly aesthetic "dolce vita" from numerous angles...
Rating: 4
Summary: the Cook and the gardener
Comment: This a great book. I read it in a short time. It was like being there. I loved every moment of the book. Of course, I like to cook and I garden The recipes are worth a try. I felt like I was there, part of the book. A great read!
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Title: Italy in Mind : An Anthology by Alice Leccese Powers ISBN: 0679770232 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ISBN: 0871137275 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Italians by Luigi Barzini ISBN: 0684825007 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 03 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Italian Hours (Penguin Classics) by Henry James, John Auchard ISBN: 0140435077 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Travelers' Tales Italy: True Stories by Anne Calcagno, Jan Morris, Anne Calgagno ISBN: 1885211724 Publisher: Travelers' Tales Inc Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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