Italian Days

Italian Days
by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Paperback, 477 pages
6-1/8"w x 9-1/4"h
$11.00

Jam-packed with information and descriptions over more than 775 pages, Italian Days provides a look at many of the features of Italian culture that make up "the good life". The book takes on a prose style of writing and is separated by regional cities. In her descriptions of each city, the author, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, blends a fantastic mix of information dealing with everything from famous architecture to local anecdotes. In the center of the book is a selection of pictures displaying many of Italy’s finest architectural treasures. Harrison’s wonderful writing style coupled with vivid descriptions allows readers to become completely immersed in Italian culture and life.

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"Contagiously exuberant...Will be the companion of visitors [to Italy] for years to come"
The Washington Post Book World

"More than a sophisticated guide, Italian Days is an account of a deepening encounter, of the way a sensibility enters into a culture and a culture acts upon the psyche and the mind....[It] is as accommodating, tolerant, evocative and heterogeneous as the culture it describes."
The New York Times

Italian Days is one of the richest and most absorbing tavel books ever written-- a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses us in a culture that, in its inexhaustible depth and ripeness, provides the reader with a definition of the good life.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison brings us a fascinating mixture of history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, arts, and literature, studded with local anecdotes and personal reflections. From modern, fashionalbe Milan to historic Rome to primitive Calabria, Harrison reveals in all its glory her Italy, the country of her origins, where the keys to her past are held by those who never left.

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