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| TITLE: |
Women in sunlight : a novel / Frances Mayes. |
| AUTHOR: |
Mayes, Frances, author. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
432 pages ; 25 cm |
| EDITION: |
First edition. |
| NOTES: |
I -- Arrivals -- Crazy salad -- By chance -- II -- Orientation -- A soft duvet -- Exile -- In dreams begin responsibilities -- Muse -- Sand castle -- III -- What do tourists want? -- White wisteria -- San Rocco -- A Domani: See you tomorrow -- The good word: Cena -- Only a week -- The x in flux -- La Raccolta: The harvest -- Green -- The unexpected garden -- Growing transparent -- Discovery walk -- Whatever you want to say -- White paper -- North to Venice -- Yellow vespas -- Invasion -- Clasps and chains -- IV -- What's more precious? -- Susan's sphere -- Holy days -- The seven-thousand-mile conversation -- Scattering -- Paper doors -- By candlelight -- Friends -- V -- In touch -- Crossing the bridge -- Almonds: The first flower -- Lo Studiolo: The studio -- Florence: Winter banished -- A letter to mail? -- OVerheard -- Marvels -- Per Sfizio: For fun -- Bougainvillea, grapes, prickly pear -- Changes cause changes -- Tangos -- Carpe diem -- Pearls -- The opening of paper doors -- VI -- Full terms -- Cutting the distance -- Somewhere, someone -- A parabola of light -- Garden of Earthly delights -- Italic hours -- Assumption -- Leap before you -- Something I meant to say -- First night. |
| NOTES: |
Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery. |
| NOTES: |
Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive--which will have drastic and unforeseeable results. -- Adapted from dust jacket. |
| SUBJECT: |
Middle-aged women--Fiction. |
| SUBJECT: |
Single women--Fiction. |
| SUBJECT: |
Americans--Italy--Tuscany--Fiction. |
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Expatriate authors--Italy--Fiction. |
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Tuscany (Italy)--Fiction. |
| SUBJECT: |
Fiction--Women. |
| SUBJECT: |
Fiction--Family Life--General. |
| SUBJECT: |
Fiction--Cultural Heritage. |
| SUBJECT: |
Fiction. |
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