Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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Author: Frances Mayes
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08-26
ISBN: 0767916069
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Broadway

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Book Review: Travel, Italy and Frances Mayes
Summary: 5 Stars

Great US author with such detail to everything and everyone around her. I love her work and although I love the movie by the same title starring Diane Ladd, it's only based partially on Frances' life. If you love travel, reading about Italy and it's food, people and its history as well as the personal struggles in bi-continent living and restoration of an old villa, this will be a great book for you. Frances is in love with life!

I love her works, poems, and even her first murder/mystery novel, Swann...I'm hooked on this author! Amazon has great sellers of used books and movies which I now use as well as some new purchases. With our economy like it in US, saving money is great and the sellers and Amazon stand behind your purchased fromt them.

Loving Frances Mayes' works, Carol in Virgina USA
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Summary of Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence.



Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly overgrown brambles in the garden, and, in the nearby hill towns, vibrant markets and delightful people. In Under the Tuscan Sun, she brings the lyrical voice of a poet, the eye of a seasoned traveler, and the discerning palate of a cook and food writer to invite readers to explore the pleasures of Italian life and to feast at her table.
In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her garden, and the intimacy of her dealings with the locals. Cooking, gardening, tiling and painting are never chores, but skills to be learned, arts to be practiced, and above all to be enjoyed. At the same time Mayes brings a literary and intellectual mind to bear on the experience, adding depth to this account of her enticing rural idyll.

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