A01=Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
architecture
arts
Author_Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Calabria
Category=WTL
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folklore
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history
Italian peninsula
literature
Milan
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travelogue
Product details
- ISBN 9780871137272
- Weight: 694g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Italian Days is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books ever written”a journey down the Italian peninsula that immerses us in the inexhaustible plenty of that culture and the equally bountiful intelligence and sensibility of its author.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, noted essayist, journalist, and fiction writer, brings us a fascinating mixture of history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, arts, and literature, studded with local anecdotes and personal reflections. From modern, fashionable Milan; to beautiful, historic Rome with its modern traffic and, even today, its sudden displays of faith; to primitive, brooding Calabria, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison reveals in all its glory and confusion her Italy, the country of her origins, where the keys to her past are held by those who never left.
Beautifully and eloquently rendered, Italian Days is a deeply engaging travelogue, but it is much more as well. It is the story of a return home”of friends, family, and faith”and of the search for the good life that propels all of us on our journeys wherever we are.
