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Chargement... Under The Tuscan Sun (original 1996; édition 1996)par Frances Mayes
Information sur l'oeuvreSous le soleil de toscane par Frances Mayes (1996)
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Ce livre superbement écrit raconte une aventure : vivre en Toscane, tomber amoureux d'une maison, la restaurer, s'adonner aux plaisirs de la cuisine italienne, partager un bonheur et un art de vivre. Un merveilleux cadeau pour un ami. Mais il est si délicieux qu'il faut que vous le lisiez d'abord. ( ) Pour les moments où l'on rêve d'Italie, tout y est. La première partie concernant la rénovation m'agace un peu avec tous ces clichés. J'aime la seconde très juste et bien informée, la découverte de plusieurs lieux connus ou confidentiels de ce pays magnifique. Pour s'endormir sur de belles images...
It was with considerable baggage that I recently revisited "Under the Tuscan Sun" this year, on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, and discovered that my opinion of the book has grown ever so slightly more generous with age. This is not to say that I found the book free of flaws the second time around. For one, it contains virtually no narrative conflicts; each incident that could potentially cause tension gets resolved within paragraphs or, at most, a few pages. Will the villa’s previous owner sell to Frances and her partner, Ed? Yes, he will. Will a big pile of money needed to make the deal arrive by wire? Several paragraphs later, it does. Frances stubs her toe, to much consternation, and a few lines later Ed applies a Band-Aid... However I feel about Mayes and her privilege, and the marketing phenomenon that has flourished in her wake, there’s no denying that her prose brings Bramasole to life. When the workers begin to open up a wall between her living room and the kitchen, removing large stones, Mayes writes, “It’s the imagination that carries us through the stress of these projects. Soon we will be happy!” During a Christmas Day snowfall, while her daughter and a friend are visiting, she asks, “Is this much happiness allowed?” Est contenu dansFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansA inspiréListes notables
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HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lanenow in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But its so delicious, read it first yourself.USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBSs Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayeswidely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writerintroduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeyswhether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the books dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayess signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the books most popular characters. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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