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Every Day in Tuscany [electronic resource] / Frances Mayes.

Mayes, Frances, (author.). hoopla digital. (Added Author). Read by Frances Mayes. (Cast).

Summary:

Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian life. Among the themes Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically expanded when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a 13th century house with a stone roof in the mountains above Cortona, how life in the mountains introduced her to a "wilder" side of Tuscany--and with it a lively engagement with Tuscany's mountain people. Throughout, she reveals the concrete joys of life in her adopted hill town, with particular attention to life in the piazza, the art of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona), and the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her garden. Moving always toward a deeper engagement, Mayes writes of Tuscan icons that have become for her storehouses of memory, of crucible moments from which bigger ideas emerged, and of the writing life she has enjoyed in the room where Under the Tuscan Sun began. With more on the pleasures of life at Bramasole, the delights and challenges of living in Italy day-to-day and favorite recipes, Every Day in Tuscany is a passionate and inviting account of the richness and complexity of Italian life.

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Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307702999
  • ISBN: 0307702995
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 56 min.)) : digital.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Books on Tape, 2010.
  • Distributor: Made available through hoopla

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:
Flex title available through hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Frances Mayes.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject:
Autobiography.
Biography.
Travel.
Europe.
Italy.
Genre:
Biographies.
Travel writing.

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