A Tuscan Childhood - Rilegato

Beevor, Antony

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ISBN 10: 0375404627 ISBN 13: 9780375404627

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 1999

Riassunto

The author describes growing up in a castle in the Tuscan countryside, amid her parents' bohemian lifestyle, between the two World Wars, detailing her encounters with the artistic world and artists, including D. H. Lawrence and Rex Whistler, the impact of World War II, and the joys of rural Italy. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione

"A loving and intimate portrait of Tuscany's many faces. . . . One can hear the buzzing of the cicadas, smell the wild thyme, and feel the crunching of pine needles underfoot. . . . A beautifully written book."
--The Sunday Times

"Delightful . . . the pages are alive with vivid characters, from stonemasons and farm workers to foreign bohemians. . . . A joy."
--The Observer

"Kinta Beevor's distinctive contribution is in her detailed and unsentimental account of the peasant life of the time, its surroundings, its labours and its joys, and in her ability to convey the remembered happiness of a childhood spent in the freedom of two exceptionally beautiful houses amid some of the most delectable countryside in the world."
--Times Literary Supplement

"A delightful memoir."
--Marie Claire

"Its unpretentiousness and authenticity, and above all the sincerity of the writer's affection for an Italy now long lost, make it an attractive and engaging read."
--The Spectator

L'autore

Kinta Beevor was born in 1911 in Northbourne, England, and died in 1995. A Tuscan Childhood, published in Great Britain in 1993, was her only book.

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375404627
• ISBN 13: 9780375404627
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288