Bella Tuscany
Subtitle: The Sweet Life in Italy
Publisher: Broadway
Published: April 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780767902847
Subjects: Travel - General; Mayes, Frances; Travel; Tuscany (Italy); Essays & Travelogues; Europe - Italy; Travel / Europe / Italy; Reading Group Guide; Description and travel; Social life and customs
First sentence: FORTUNATE THAT CYPRESS SHADOWS FALL IN wide bands across the sunlit road; fortunate that on the first day back in Cortona I see a carpenter carrying boards, his tabby cat balanced on his shoulders, tail straight up, riding like a surfer.