About this title: The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto valley amid an olive grove and fruit trees of every kind. For the Tuckers, it was literally love at first sight, and the couple purchased the house without testing the water pressure or checking for signs of termites. Shedding the vestiges of their American life, Michael and Jill endeavored to ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780802143624ISBN:0802143628
Description: Good. 275-Z: Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780871139627ISBN:0871139626
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2008-06-10
ISBN-13:9780802143624ISBN:0802143628
Description: Very Good. Some edge wear. A nice copy. NOT an ex-library book; no publisher's remainder marks. No spine creasing. Military (APO/FPO) orders are welcomed-Thank you for your service. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date Published: 2008-06-10
ISBN-13:9780802143624ISBN:0802143628
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780802143624ISBN:0802143628
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780871139627ISBN:0871139626
Description: Kristine Walsh, Photography. Fine in Fine jacket. Travel. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A memoir of food, wine and love in Italy. Both a celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, this book is a gorgeous, organic travelogue written with an epicurean's delight in detail and a gourmand's appreciation for all things fine. This book is in great shape and so is the dust jacket. The jacket is not price clipped and is in new clear protective covering. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780871139627ISBN:0871139626
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Travel This copy is tight and clean with a small tear to the edge of the dust cover at the top edge. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Book., NY
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780871139627ISBN:0871139626
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. (USA) No markings, as New in nclipped as New Dj. Ochre bds, 253pp. B&W photos. Tucker of L.A. Law fame, writes about life and food in the Spoleto Region of Italy. (1.5 JM FO 42A/1. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780871139627ISBN:0871139626
Description: Near Fine in fine jacket. A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by author. Very clean yellow-brown boards with brown lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean red endpapers. Signed by author on title page. 272 pp. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 2007-07-10
ISBN-13:9780871139627ISBN:0871139626
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780871139627. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780871139627ISBN:0871139626
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780802143624ISBN:0802143628
Description: Acceptable. -Acceptable: A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but the notes cannot obscure the text. About Austin eBooks Austin eBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service! We add inventory to our store daily, and guarantee order processing and shipment within 2 business days. read more
"There is really nothing wrong with this book. It was a fine, easy weekend read. It is squarely in the Californians (in this case, Michael Tucker and Jill Eichenberry of LA Law fame) move to Italy (Umbria instead of Tuscany), buy a house, renovate/add-on to house, travel all over, mention the house keeper and gardener in passing, eat and drink anything and everything and spend the whole time complaining about how broke they are. Anyone who doesn't consider a couple hundred grand a year to be minimum wage probably won't be too sympathetic -- but that is easy to ignore.
The real problem with this book is that it was written by an amateur. It is supposed to be saved by that unabashed revealing of personality that is always supposed to save amateur dinner theater -- it really doesn't work. The book isn't specific enough to make a good travel guide or cookbook. It isn't gossipy enough to be driven by the personalities. It does drive home the point that it is all about the food -- and the wine -- and the grappa; but without the detail that makes the Frances Mayes books so successful.
Again, the book is fine. It is mildly entertaining, an easy read, a reminder of all the reasons I would love to have the time and money to have a house in Italy; but it is not the equal of the Frances Mayes books, Alan Epstein's or Ferenc Mate's."
"Maybe it was because I just read Doran's "The Reluctant Tuscan," and maybe the book was just not that good, but I never got a sense of Italy - only Hollywood and people who need a LOT of maintenance. Tucker and his wife spend nearly all their time glued to an expat community in Umbria. Sure the other ex-pats have discovered great butchers and the like, but hearing about being introduced to someone - and finding a place on one's own is altogether different. It was as if there was a curtain between Tucker and his "discoveries," if you could call them that. It put a greater space between the reader and the country that does not exist in "The Reluctant Tuscan." If you really want a vicarious experience in a foreign land, stick with Phil Doran and Peter Mayle. This "Hollywood-ized" version of those European tales doesn't even come close."
"This is an amazing book. Michael Tucker is a great writer. The way he writes about Italy and its food makes you feel as though you are right there with him enjoying it too."
"Reading this book makes you want to follow in their footsteps and take it one step further to become expats. What a wonderful description of the Umbria region of Italy as well as a descriptive collection of the regional food they enjoyed."
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