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That Summer In Sicily: A Love Story | 
 enlarge | Authors: De Blasi, Marlena
Creator: Reader: To Be Announced
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1172786
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 6
Pages: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 4.3 x 2.7
ISBN: 1433214482
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.5804929092
EAN: 9781433214486
ASIN: 1433214482
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
The discovery of a secret Sicilian villa in a forgotten time and place, run by widows and ruled by ritual, brings lessons of life, love, and eating well, even as a fairy-tale romance between an unforgettable woman and an Italian prince unfolds.
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 Marlena deBlasi's best book yet! January 6, 2009
I have read all of Marlena DeBlasi's books, but consider this to be the best. It is easy reading and throughly enjoyable!That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story
 This one disappointed me. September 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have devoured each of De Blasi's other books and I think about them often. She captivated me with her style of writing and her passion. This latest book just did not grab hold of me in the same way. It's written in lovely style but I just don't care about the ones written about as much as I have in the other offerings. I guess I like to hear about Marlena, her husband and their interactions with locals in each of the places they have lived.
That Summer in Sicily September 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent story I had read it from the local library and purchased it for a friend's birthday. I also recommend author's other titles, A thousand Days in Venice and a Thousand Days in Tuscany. For anyone who loves Italy as much as I do, Both of my paternal grandparents were born there.
This is a really great writer with wonderful stories to tell. September 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Marlena De Blasi has had the most amazing life, and is a wonderful writer. As an Italophile I loved every word that she ever wrote. And this is the latest one that I have read. My head is spinning and I am planning another trip to Italy. Perhaps to Sicily. It is truly a fairy tale. You must read it!!!!!
 Good story, well-told July 10, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This author can write! Her descriptions of people, environments, food and relationship are first class.
Unlike the first three books that were memoirs of her travels and life with her husband, A Thousand Days in Venice, A Thousand Days in Tuscany, and The Lady in the Palazzo, this book is really Tosca Brazzi's story as told to Marlena.
De Blasi descriptions of simple, everyday things are strong, such as: Unskilled, unshy hands pounded scales on the piano." I could hear the music and see that person working the keys.
What an interesting story de Blasi tells because of her chance meeting with a woman, now in her mid 60s, while traveling with her husband, Italian born Fernando. Tosca, the nine-year-old daughter of a peasant under the last prince in Sicily, was given to the prince by her father in trade for a stallion. She was educated along with the prince's young children and as she grew, became their teacher. A priest who knew her in the beginning described her as having "splendid arrogance."
At 18, Tosca became the mistress of Leo, the prince, now 36. When Leo disappeared mysteriously because his work for the people went against the local mafia, Tosco became an heiress. She carries on his work of modernizing some of culture. Sicily is like a major character in the book and we learn about many aspects of life there.
The story today is of Tosca's role in helping women who are alone--many who come to the beautiful Villa Donnafugata (house of fleeing women) to live, and maybe to die.
If you love good writing that is descriptive to the finest detail, read this book. In the first chapter she describes the ceiling of the dining room in the Villa: "Fragment of frescoed gods and goddesses--plump flanked and rolling eyes--hurtle across the high crumbling walls, giving chase up onto the great vault of the ceiling."
The author has been a journalist, restaurant critic, and cookbook author. She took a trip to Italy, and there experienced a whirlwind love affair with a man and with Venice, inspiring her to write _A Thousand Days in Venice.
Armchair Interviews says: Not a memoir of de Blasi's life, but of Tosca's, however this is a good read you'll enjoy.
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