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Title: Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes ISBN: 0-7679-0284-X Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.88 (117 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Exquisite!
Comment: Mayes is a treat. I loved this book as much as her previous Italy book; can't understand the attacks herein, but it doesn't matter. I love all of the Italian references. The imagery is so powerful that it almost felt as though I were in Italy. It enriched my reading experience by teaching me the finer parts of Mediterranean culture -- and Mayes has done the same in a unique and memorable way. This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it to anyone without an ax slung over their shoulder.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read if you love Italy
Comment: This is a great book! It actually take you to a portal of Italy. Well written of Italian culture, Frances Mayes capture the bella of Italy. I love this book very much, I visited Italy before and I miss it so much. When I read this book, I feel that I am there again. I love the detail of it, I actually love when she talked about food, the market and the italian word with english beside it. I learned from the book.
If you love Italy, this is a must read.
One thing I agree with the other reader that if there's pictures and map included would make this book a plus. I really wants to see the pictures she mentioned and the map for my quick reference. I love the part she talked about mushroom and market with fresh food.
Rating: 4
Summary: a diamond with some flaws
Comment: OK--Many of the customers who wrote previous reviews about Bella Tuscany have some valid complaints. It is several chapters too long and we do get tired of Mayes' whining. We have little pity for her trying to restore two houses at once and we don't need to hear about every meal and shopping excursion. It certainly does not surpass her first effort, "Under the Tuscan Sun." Still, as someone who has never been to Tuscany (or Italy for that matter), many of the descriptions in "Bella Tuscany" are little treasures. Who wouldn't want to live where you can go to one local farm for ricotta, another for pecorino romano and a third for wine? Or where Roman and Etruscan ruins are to be found in so many unsuspecting places? Or where fabulous meals can be made with only the simple ingredients you grow in your garden? Or where every small local church has a major work or art or two? I do have two recommendations that would have made this book more enjoyable; a map of Tuscany and Italy would have been helpful in identifying the many places Mayes visited. Also, I would have enjoyed more photographs other than those on the dust jacket. Maybe the few "teaser" pictures are to whet our appetite for her 3rd book, "In Tuscany." In any case, while this book has some character flaws, I think potential readers need to try to overlook these and to dig deeper for the jewel within.
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Title: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes ISBN: 0767900383 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: In Tuscany by Frances Mayes, Edward Mayes, Bob Krist ISBN: 0767905350 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Swan by Frances Mayes ISBN: 0767902858 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany by James Bentley, Hugh Palmer ISBN: 050001664X Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, Judith Clancy ISBN: 0679731148 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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