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A House in Sicily

Autor Daphne Phelps Cuvânt înainte de Denis Mack Smith
en 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

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.

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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