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by V. Adamoli (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Summersdale Publishers (8 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840244895
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840244892
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 153,257 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'This lovely book is a piece of tender sociology, charting the changes made when free love and fast food came to a community that had ignored the world for centuries'. Adam Mars-Jones, Writer and Critic 'Beautifully written, often very moving. Vida writes both as an in- and an outsider with equal conviction.' Bernice Rubens"


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An enjoyable read that brings both the people and the time back to life in all their gritty glory. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars As close as you can get without moving in yourself., 6 Sep 2002
By Ginny Baillie (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: La Bella Vita (Summersdale travel) (Paperback)
I was given this book & thought it was going to be your usual "foreigner in local Italian town reprises vignettes for us to laugh at".....how wrong could I be. Vida's lack of sentimentality, willingness to report truthfully (even if she sometimes comes out of it less than glowingly), and keen details make this a book to treasure. Each chapter reads like a complete story so you can pick it up and put it down - and in fact I had to - it is so rich and evocative - I LOVED the cinema descriptions and stories - reading it was like being there - and this is certiaily the closest I would ever get to this experience. You have to be living it to be able to write like this.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The real Italy, 25 Jun 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: La Bella Vita (Summersdale travel) (Paperback)
This book brought alive to me the Southern Italy I know so well. It is
vivid, passionate and sensual -- and, as one of the reviews on the cover
stated "tender". In its evocation of the people, rituals and daily rhythms
of a small Italian coastal town, discovered, and then loved, by outsiders it
has the quality of Italian films -- especially Cinema Paradiso. Torre
Saraceno's own outdoor cinema, overlooking the sea, its soundtrack overlaid
by crickets, the enthusiastic participation of the locals in the twists and
turns of the films, is now burnt on my memory. I laughed aloud and was moved
in equal parts as the book traces the change of destiny in a tiny community
over the course of 20 years, when it is embraced by the influx of tourists
-- welcome for their money, but ultimately catalysts for unforeseen change. Because of the time span, it offers a broader picture than A Year in Provence or Driving Over Lemons.
Vida Adamoli, please now write about Rome -- where, you tell us, you also
lived for 20 years. I know it will be a warm, affectionate, intimate, funny
picture -- very different from the tourist guide trio of St Peter's, the
Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful summer or winter reading, 25 Jun 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: La Bella Vita (Summersdale travel) (Paperback)
Vida Adamoli's description of Italy is vivid and loving. Whether she is writing about the streets of Rome or the hippie houseparty in Torre Saracena, the smells and sounds rise out of the pages to meet you.
Many English people fantasise about living in a foreign country and getting to know 'the locals'. With Vida, you feel she has actually succeeded. Her sister visits her in Italy, but Vida, married to an Italian, becomes part of the town.
Even the hippies that take over a derelict building in town are woven into the fabric of this enchanting story.
But even as they are all admiring the Paradise they have found, their very presence is destroying it and admitting the 20th century to a medieval village.
I enjoyed this book enormously and I would recommend it to anyone, either on holiday or at home.
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