In Maremma Life And A House In Southern Tuscany

Author: David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell

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Price : $8.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781582432113
Publisher : Counterpoint Press
Imprint : Counterpoint Press
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Weight (g) : 0.408233
Publication date : 01 May 2002
Dimensions : .37 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 9 Inches
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Author : David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
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Language : English
Reading Level : very good
Pages : 160
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An intimate portrait of life in a small rural town in Tuscany recounting David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950's farmhouse in southern Tuscany and the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life that foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harvest and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the longing for peanut butter. A celebration and exploration of a little-known part of Italy, In Maremma is also a fond if sometimes critical corrective to other more rapturous portrayals of Tuscany.

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