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- •I a m a b o u t t o b u y a h o u s e I n a f o r e I g n country. A house with the beautiful name
- •Italy always has had a magnetic north pull on my psyche.
- •It looks like a significant chunk of interest they’ll collect, since clearing a check in Italy can take weeks.
- •I love the islands off the Georgia coast, where I spent summers when I was growing up. Why not a weathered gray house there, made of wood that looks as though it washed up on the beach?
- •I f t h e g u n I s o n t h e m a n t e l I n c h a p t e r o n e , t h e r e m u s t be a bang by the end of the story.
- •I don’t ask if this house was occupied by Nazis. ‘‘What about the partisans?’’
- •It did in 1985, but gaps between trees reveal huge dead stumps.
- •I lean forward and venture, ‘‘Is that a trace of a Southern accent?’’
- •I never will feel the same toward workers again; they should be paid fortunes.
- •In the tigli shade, we’re protected from the midday heat. The 122
- •I t a l I a n s a l w a y s h a V e l I V e d o V e r t h e store. The palazzi of some of the grandest families have bricked-in arches at ground
- •In holes in the wall all over town, the refinishing of furniture goes on. Many men make tables and chests from old wood.
- •In the morning, I have one of the favorite experiences of my life. We get up at five and go to the hot waterfall near Saturnia.
- •In the motionless calm of the day, that memory of living immersed, absorbed, in the stunned light.
- •Impelled to the kitchen. I feel deep hungers
- •If I’d had a boy, I’d have wanted him to be like Jess. We both fall right away for Jess’s humor, intellectual curiosity, and 212
- •It must be too cold for them.’’
- •Inside each—what else but a miniature crèche? Incredible!
- •Ing a bag of cibo to take back to California with me. I’m not sure exactly when my
- •If you don’t have wild mushrooms, use a mixture of button mushrooms and dried porcini that have been revived by soaking them for 30 minutes in stock, water, wine, or cognac.
- •In Georgia when I was growing up, the Christmas turkey always was stuffed with a cornmeal dressing. This adaptation of my mother’s recipe uses Italian ingredients.
- •I’m weeding when I brush my arms against a patch of nettles.
- •It is hard to think a mocking angel isn’t 266
- •I don’t believe her but when I break open the cookie, it is crawling with maggots. I quickly throw it out the window.
- •It’s prime time for sex, too. Maybe this accounts for the Mediterranean temperament versus the northern: children conceived in the light and children conceived in the dark. Ovid has a poem 284
- •Inside the high-roomed, shuttered house, it’s completely silent. Even the cicadas have quit. Peaceful, dreamy afternoon.
- •Vines. Now a friend with a backhoe has dug a deep trench along a terrace. Beppe will tell us when we can plant.
- •I have many plans for other projects—a third fountain, a rasp-berry patch, a chestnut fence for wild hot-pink rugosas to sprawl over.
- •Version of how to live one’s life.”
Version of how to live one’s life.”
—USA Today
“A love letter to Italy wr itten in
precise and passionate language.”
—Newsday
Now in paperback
F R A N C E S M AY E S C O M E S H O M E I N
H E R AC C L A I M E D F I C T I O N D E B U T
Frances Mayes uses her native
Georgia as the setting for a debut
“fueled by page-turning, irresistible
questions” and laced with descriptions
that are “often haunting and ravishing”
( San Francisco Chronicle Book Review).
B R O A D W A Y
B O O K S
• W W W . B R O A D W A Y B O O K S . C O M
A V A I L A B L E
W H E R E V E R
B O O K S
A R E
S O L D
A L S O AVA I L A B L E O N C A S S E T T E A N D C D F RO M R A N D O M H O U S E A U D I O
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