In Maremma - Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
Author(s): David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Counterpoint Press
- : Counterpoint Press
- : 0.408233
- : 01 May 2002
- : .37 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 9 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
- : Paperback
- : English
- : very good
- : 160