About this title: When prizewinning author Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lay in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected - the Piero della Francesca trail and queues at the Vatican - and the surprising - an amorous Scottish ex-pat and a longing ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN-13:9780374184032ISBN:0374184038
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN-13:9780374184032ISBN:0374184038
Description: New. New, unread, unused & in perfect condition with no damaged or missing pages. This is a paperback with same cover and publisher stickers. This book is the same isbn, but is a paperback. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780374184032ISBN:0374184038
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Binding: Hardboard, d.j.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780374184032ISBN:0374184038
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8.50" x 5.75" 239 pages. A new unread copy. U.S. orders are shipped from our Lewiston, New York location. read more
Description: New. Oppressed by the claustrophobia of domestic life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, and a different path into the future. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 05/02/2009
ISBN-13:9780571242566ISBN:0571242561
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"I didn't really enjoy this book that much. Rachel Cusk comes off as quite snobbish. Also, I can't imagine taking children to that many art museums. This is my least favorite of her work - and I have read 2 novels and one memoir about being a mother."
"I have read more than my share of glowing travel narratives about Italy, and I expected much the same from this book--rosy observations on the countryside, the people, rapturous chapters about the glories of olive oil and pasta. This book was not what I expected, and I loved that about it. Rachel Cusk wrote about an extended family vacation in Italy, but this is not really a story about a family--they were sort of vaguely there, but the book is more of an an exploration of the experience through the sharp mind and precise language of the woman who wrote it. The author, for me, brilliantly captured the feeling of being a foreigner in another country. And rather than rhapsodizing about those things that the rest of the world adores about Italy, she tended to mention them, and then (sometimes pointedly) analyze them--often with a perspective that was entirely new to me, but one that nonetheless rang true to some of my experiences traveling in Italy. Her chapters on art I found particularly interesting; the book contains some images that she talks about, but others are not pictured, and I did wish I had them in front of me. (I knew I kept Gardner's Art Through The Ages for a reason...)"
"There were parts of this book that I enjoyed. I liked her descriptions of the artwork and the subtext she created in those sections. Some information was well researched and interesting, but there were too many forced metaphors. And I was turned off by the voyeurism of the people encountered along their travels. Then there was the pretensiosness that seemed to pervade the book."
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