Under the Tuscan Sun - 20th-Anniversary Edition

Zusatztext A New York Times Notable Book "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 it's so delicious! read it first yourself." —USA Today "Irresistible...a sensous book for a sensous countryside." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “An intense celebration of what [Mayes] calls ‘the voluptuousness of Italian life’ . . . appealing and very vivid . . . [The] book seems like the kind of thing you’d tuck into a picnic basket on an August day . . . or better yet! keep handy on the bedside table in the depths of January.” — New York Times Book Review "Armchair travel at its most enticing." —Booklist “Mayes [has] perfect vision. . . . I do not doubt that centuries form now! whoever lives in Bramasole will one day uncover bits of pottery used at Mayes’ table. She has! by the sweat of her brow and the strength of her vision! become a layer in the history of this place.” — Los Angeles Times "After buying a rundown villa in rural Tuscany! the American author Frances Mayes moves to Cortona to renovate the property and learn more about the Italian dolce vita. Her bestselling memoir on her time there paints a vivid description of the town! the people and the lush surrounding countryside of rolling hills and vineyards. A poet and a gourmet cook! Mayes includes a number of chapters on food! replete with classic Italian recipes to further whet the appetite." — Irish Times Informationen zum Autor Frances Mayes Klappentext "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 it's so delicious, read it first yourself."-USA Today The 20th anniversary edition of the classic, updated with a new afterword. Don't miss Frances Mayes in PBS's Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! Twenty years ago, Frances Mayes-widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer-introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned villa called Bramasole in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. Under the Tuscan inspired generations to embark on their own journeys-whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book's dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes's signature evocative, sensory language. Now, with a new afterword from the Bard of Tuscany herself, the 20th anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun brings us up-to-date with the book's most beloved characters. Leseprobe Bramare: (Archaic) To Yearn For I am about to buy a house in a foreign country. A house with the beautiful name of Bramasole. It is tall, square, and apricot-colored with faded green shutters, ancient tile roof, and an iron balcony on the second level, where ladies might have sat with their fans to watch some spectacle below. But below, overgrown briars, tangles of roses, and knee-high weeds run rampant. The balcony faces southeast, looking into a deep valley, then into the Tuscan Apennines. When it rains or when the light changes, the facade of the house turns gold, sienna, ocher; a previous scarlet paint job seeps through in rosy spots like a box of crayons left to melt in the sun. In places where the stucco has fallen away, rugged stone shows what the exterior once was. The house rises above a strada bianca , a road white with pebbles, on a terraced slab of hillside covered with fruit and olive trees. Bramasole: from bramare , to yearn for, and sole, sun : something that yearns for the sun, and yes, I do. The family wisdom runs strongly against this decision. My mother has said ‘‘Ridiculous,’’ with her ce...

Product details

• Authors: Frances Mayes
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780767900386
• ISBN: 978-0-7679-0038-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 202 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Crown
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales