Frances Mayes
Autore di Sotto il sole della Toscana
Sull'Autore
A native of Georgia, Frances Mayes received a B.A. from the University of Florida and an M.A. from San Francisco State University. She is a creative writing professor at San Francisco State University. Mayes' memoir "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy," about buying and restoring an abandoned mostra altro villa in Cortona, was a national best seller in 1996. It became the basis of a feature film of the same name in 2003 starring Diane Lane. In addition her travel writing, Frances Mayes is the author of six books of poetry and is a respected essayist and gourmet cook. Frances' title Under Magnolia is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Frances Mayes
January 6, quarter of four 1 copia
Under Magnolias 1 copia
Three poems 1 copia
Under The Tuscan Sun 2000 Diary 1 copia
Opere correlate
A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure, and Discovery on the Road (2013) — Collaboratore — 101 copie
Torregreca: Life, Death, and Miracles in a Southern Italian Village (Italia Series) (1969) — Prefazione — 57 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1940-04-04
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Fitzgerald, Georgia, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Fitzgerald, Georgia, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA - Istruzione
- University of Florida
San Francisco State University
Randolph-Macon Woman's College - Attività lavorative
- professor
poet
essayist
novelist - Relazioni
- Mayes, Edward (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- San Francisco State University
Utenti
Discussioni
Under the Tuscan Sun in Made into a Movie (Febbraio 2016)
Recensioni
Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life di Frances Mayes
Books by expats, travel and food memoirs are among my favorite books to read. I've read others by Frances Mayes, her first one about Tuscany, Under the Tuscan Sun, is one of my favorites. But I didn't like this one bit. It was little bits and pieces and didn't seem to be telling me anything. In fact, she seemed a bit full of herself, dropping Italian words and phrases here and there. I read only a few pages and then decided to give it back to the friend who had loaned it to me.
I have enjoyed Frances Mayes's books and this was really no different--except that most of this book has been published elsewhere. And that's the kind of detail I like to know before I decide to buy a book. Now looking forward to something new by her.
I was assigned this book for a cre-writ retreat, and while I enjoyed Mayes' writing style and the premise of the book, I ended up not liking her at all! I think it was probably a lack of enough personal information (it's written in 1st person, after all) that made her seem ... flippant? I do love an heiress, and I'm kinda a snob myself, but I don't want to feel that from an author.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 34
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 12,647
- Popolarità
- #1,852
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 282
- ISBN
- 262
- Lingue
- 15
- Preferito da
- 17
