French Dive: Living More with Less in the South of France - Rilegato

Freeze, Eric

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ISBN 10: 1725266156 ISBN 13: 9781725266155

Casa editrice: Slant, 2020

Riassunto

In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Côte d’Azur. They’d bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment in need of renovation just a couple blocks from the Mediterranean.

They were a family with a plan: to live differently. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart.

Carefully researched and vividly written, French Dive chronicles the Freeze family’s integration into a culture where large families aren’t all treated alike. What they find—spearfishing for food, renting their car to strangers, fixing and selling old furniture from the garbage depot—is that a city gives back the more you give to it.

Morally complex and unflinching in its analysis of contemporary life and the things that keep human beings apart, Freeze tackles racism, homelessness, art, reality TV, social media, and parenting with wit and humor. Along the way he and his family learn what it means to be a neighbor, a member of a community, and a global citizen, how to treat others with empathy and understanding as they try to carve out a place in this world.
 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Eric Freeze is an Associate Professor at Wabash College. He is the author of Dominant Traits, Hemingway on a Bike, and Invisible Men. He lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana and Nice, France with academic Rixa Freeze and their four children.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Slant
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1725266156
• ISBN 13: 9781725266155
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 286
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile