A House in Sicily
Autor Daphne Phelps Cuvânt înainte de Denis Mack Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2000
The
captivating
memoir
of
a
resourceful
woman
who
started
life
anew
in
the
"most
beautiful
house
in
Sicily"
For
fifty
years,
at
Casa
Cuseni
in
the
small
Sicilian
town
of
Taormina,
Daphne
Phelps
has
extended
her
English
charm
and
warm
hospitality
to
seasoned
travelers
and
professional
escapists
as
well
as
to
writers
and
artists
like
Tennessee
Williams,
Bertrand
Russell,
Henry
Faulkner,
and
Roald
Dahl.
This
memoir
tells
their
story,
and
hers.
It
begins
in
1947
when,
thirty-four
years
old
and
war-weary,
a
modest
Englishwoman
arrived
in
Taormina
with
little
Italian,
less
money,
and
a
plan
to
sell
the
property
she
had
unexpectedly
inherited.
Instead,
she
fell
in
love,
not
just
with
the
airy
quarters
of
the
golden
stone
house
on
a
hillside
but
also
with
a
community
and
its
way
of
life.
To
save
Casa
Cuseni
from
certain
demolition,
Daphne
converted
her
enchanting
inheritance
into
the
wondrous
pensione
that
for
nearly
half
a
century
she
has
run
with
the
blessing
of
every
Taorminan
from
the
local
silk-shirted
godfather,
Don
Ciccio,
to
Concetta
Genio,
her
steadfast
cook,
housekeeper,
and
friend.
"A
loving
portrait
...
of
a
vanishing
way
of
life."
--New
York
Times
Book
Review
"The
often
humorous
clash
of
cultures
...
[and]
the
stories
of
the
ordinary
Sicilian
men
and
women
who
populate
the
pages
that
make
this
book,
and
this
place,
so
special,...
so
thoroughly
alive."--
Chicago
Tribune
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780786707942
ISBN-10: 0786707941
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8 pages of color photos
Dimensiuni: 140 x 207 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
ISBN-10: 0786707941
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8 pages of color photos
Dimensiuni: 140 x 207 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
Notă biografică
Diane
Phelps's
Sicilian
house
and
garden
have
been
featured
inThe
World
of
Interiorsand
numerous
other
publications.A
House
in
Sicilyis
her
first
book.
Denis Mack Smithis the author ofModern Italy: A Political HistoryandMussolini: A Biography.
Denis Mack Smithis the author ofModern Italy: A Political HistoryandMussolini: A Biography.
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* A delightful and moving homage to the 'most beautiful house in Taormina, Sicily' and the colourful people of the local community by the modest, independent and generous woman who has inhabited it for over fifty years
* A delightful and moving homage to the 'most beautiful house in Taormina, Sicily' and the colourful people of the local community by the modest, independent and generous woman who has inhabited it for over fifty years