Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture Paperback - 1997
by Susan Cahill
This collection of passionate travel writings about Italy includes works by George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Mary McCarthy, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Patricia Hampl, and 23 others who reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women.
First line
It is hard to say whether the stock phrase of the stock tourist-"there is so little to see in Milan"-redounds most to the derision of the speaker or to the glory of Italy.
From the jacket flap
Under the spell of la dolce vita . . .
For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women.
Kate Simon walks us through a Siena filled with surprises and luminous beauty. Elizabeth Spencer writes of first coming to Italy and finding "home." Shirley Hazzard explores the mysteries of Naples. Muriel Spark writes on Venice, Edith Wharton on Rome, George Eliot on Florence, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison on San Gimignano, Patricia Hampl on Assisi. Other wonderful writers contemplate the idiosyncratic glories of Italy's architecture, cooking, art, and landscape; its culture; its places and people.
As these writers tell their stories--in fiction, memoir, and essay--of coming to understand Italy, they explore the complexity of their passions for it, mingling affection and ecstasy with intellectual curiosity. Organized geographically--from northern Italy to Rome and on to the south, Desiring Italy offers an enchanting journey for readers and travelers.
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- Title Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture
- Author Susan Cahill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
- Date April 15, 1997
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780449910801 / 0449910806
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.54 x 0.84 in (20.98 x 14.07 x 2.13 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Italy - Description and travel, Visitors, Foreign - Italy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97003973
- Dewey Decimal Code 914.504
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/15/1997, Page 1380
- Library Journal, 07/01/1997, Page 0
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