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Extra Virgin : A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is
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Extra Virgin : A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted Paperback - 2002

by Hawes, Annie

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  • Title Extra Virgin : A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted
  • Author Hawes, Annie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-04-02
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5764303-6
  • ISBN 9780060958114 / 0060958111
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.34 x 0.83 in (20.42 x 13.56 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Riviera (Italy) - Social life and customs, Riviera (Italy) - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00040969
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females who discover that here amongst the hardcore olive farming folk their incompetence is positively alarming. Not to worry: the thrifty villagers of Diano San Pietro are on the case, and soon plying the Pallid Sisters with advice, ridicule, tall tales and copious hillside refreshments...

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GLAMOUR, WE SOON SPOTTED, was not the outstanding feature of the village of Diano San Pietro.

From the rear cover

In 1983, a pale Annie Hawes and her equally pale sister leave England for the sun-drenched olive groves of a small Italian town in Liguria. With fantasies of handsome tanned men and swimming in the sea urging them on, they are hired to work for ten weeks to graft roses -- of which they have little knowledge -- along the Italian Riviera, board and lodging included.

But none of the men seem to be under forty, and Ligurians have particular ideas about life, including swimming ("To go swimming in seawater outside the month of July or August is even worse for your health than drinking cappuccino after twelve noon!"). But Annie and her sister are captivated by San Pietro's quirkiness and beauty, and suddenly their brief stay stretches into years, as they are bemused, charmed, and ultimately accepted by the eccentric inhabitants of their adopted home.

Resonating with captivating verve and humor, Extra Virgin dishes up a sumptuous sampling of Italian life from an irresistible new voice.

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  • Commonweal, 06/17/2005, Page 26

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