Desiring Italy

Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture

Susan Cahill

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Fawcett
11 December 1998

Travel writing

Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture

Under the spell of la dolce vita . . .

For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women.

Kate Simon walks us through a Siena filled with surprises and luminous beauty. Elizabeth Spencer writes of first coming to Italy and finding ""home."" Shirley Hazzard explores the mysteries of Naples. Muriel Spark writes on Venice, Edith Wharton on Rome, George Eliot on Florence, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison on San Gimignano, Patricia Hampl on Assisi. Other wonderful writers contemplate the idiosyncratic glories of Italy's architecture, cooking, art, and landscape; its culture; its places and people.

As these writers tell their stories--in fiction, memoir, and essay--of coming to understand Italy, they explore the complexity of their passions for it, mingling affection and ecstasy with intellectual curiosity. Organized geographically--from northern Italy to Rome and on to the south, Desiring Italy offers an enchanting journey for readers and travelers.

By: Susan Cahill
Imprint: Fawcett
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 353g
ISBN: 9780449910801
ISBN 10: 0449910806
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 11 December 1998
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susan Cahill, PhD, is the editor of many highly praised anthologies, including Desiring Italy, For the Love of Ireland, Wise Women, The QPB Anthology of Writing by Women, and Women and Fiction. Author of the novel Earth Angels and co-author with Thomas Cahill of A Literary Guide to Irleand, she has taught at Queens College and Fordham University. She lives in New York City and, for part of the year, Rome.