Joan Marble (1920–2004)
Auteur de Notes from an Italian Garden
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Joan Marble
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Cook, Joan Marble
- Date de naissance
- 1920
- Date de décès
- 2004-04-30
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Rome, Italy
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Rome, Italy
Canale, Italy
London, England, UK - Professions
- journalist
writer - Relations
- Cook, Robert (Husband)
- Organisations
- United Press International
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 171
- Popularité
- #124,899
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 15
- Langues
- 3
But happily, the majority of the book is set in less congested times. The titular terrace is a very fine piece of property indeed, boasting a view of the delightfully-named Chiaso del Amore Divino and being a 10-minute walk from the Vatican. Well, then! That's not enough, no sir, because the good lady is a gardener and consequently has the jealousy-inducing 'rooftop garden' that I can only dream of and which has LEMON TREES IN POTS, I ask you! (This is one of the dreamed-of features in my future home, when I grow a green thumb of course.)
She and Robert are parents to two youngsters and go about life in Italy very much in sync with the local lifestyle. They shop every day for produce, own a country house in Canale (more jealousy surged), navigate the local bureaucracy with the adequate amount of patience, and needless to say speak fluent Italian. The couple comes across as grounded and compassionate, both with an admirable curiosity flashing through that would make them lovely dinner guests.
And with that I will conclude this very inadequate review, for what else is there to say? I enjoyed this slim and refreshing set of vignettes extremely. I wish that we'd done up our balcony already and I'd read this along with a crisp glass of some Italian white. Never mind, it's been far too cold anyway to do that, but now I'm tempted to seek out her "Notes from a Roman Garden" even if it will be very heavy on the green-thumb business.… (plus d'informations)