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Women in sunlight : a novel / Frances Mayes.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.A956 W66 2018
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mayes Women
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayes, Frances, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Expatriate authors.
- Americans.
- Tuscany (Italy)--Fiction.
- Tuscany (Italy).
- Italy.
- Italy--Tuscany.
- Middle-aged women--Fiction.
- Middle-aged women.
- Single women--Fiction.
- Single women.
- Americans--Italy--Tuscany--Fiction.
- Expatriate authors--Italy--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Tuscany (Italy)--Fiction.
- Single women--Fiction.
- Middle-aged women--Fiction.
- Americans--Italy--Tuscany--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 432 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, [2018]
- Summary:
- Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery.
- Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive--which will have drastic and unforeseeable results. -- Adapted from dust jacket.
- Contents:
- I
- Arrivals
- Crazy salad
- By chance
- II
- Orientation
- A soft duvet
- Exile
- In dreams begin responsibilities
- Muse
- Sand castle
- III
- What do tourists want?
- White wisteria
- San Rocco
- A Domani: See you tomorrow
- The good word: Cena
- Only a week
- The x in flux
- La Raccolta: The harvest
- Green
- The unexpected garden
- Growing transparent
- Discovery walk
- Whatever you want to say
- White paper
- North to Venice
- Yellow vespas
- Invasion
- Clasps and chains
- IV
- What's more precious?
- Susan's sphere
- Holy days
- The seven-thousand-mile conversation
- Scattering
- Paper doors
- By candlelight
- Friends
- V
- In touch
- Crossing the bridge
- Almonds: The first flower
- Lo Studiolo: The studio
- Florence: Winter banished
- A letter to mail?
- OVerheard
- Marvels
- Per Sfizio: For fun
- Bougainvillea, grapes, prickly pear
- Changes cause changes
- Tangos
- Carpe diem
- Pearls
- The opening of paper doors
- VI
- Full terms
- Cutting the distance
- Somewhere, someone
- A parabola of light
- Garden of Earthly delights
- Italic hours
- Assumption
- Leap before you
- Something I meant to say
- First night.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780451497666
- 045149766X
- 9780143788539
- 0143788531
- OCLC:
- 993653818
- Publisher Number:
- 99976968380
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