The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, without its story of God, of love or death." Morton's stories and observations of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia, and Veneto, whether relating to the fantastic reconstruction of the La Scala opera house or the superstitious lovers at Juliet's Tomb, make his style as engaging as the landscape and people he evokes.

A Traveller In Italy

Travel

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti

MORTON, H.V.

Europe

Da Capo Press

A woman obsessed with her desire for the love of a homosexual man rebounds between the glittering world of artists, dealers, and collectors and her own staunchly middle-class milieu in a search for "ordinary human happiness"

Foreign Bodies

Literature & Fiction

United States

DOUBLEDAY

This book is a journey down the Italian peninsula that will make even the most experienced traveler relive its splendor anew. Harrison offers a fascinating mixture of Italian history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, art, and literature.

Italian Days

Ticknor & Fields

A collection of essays exploring the world takes readers from Bensonhurst, to Budapest, to Morocco, to the Roman flat of Gore Vidal, and introduces them to such figures as Oprah Winfrey and Mario Cuomo. By the author of Italian Days. 12,500 first printing.

The Astonishing World: Essays

When asked to describe this book, Harrison responds, "An autobiography in which I am not the main character." In her unconventional though never arbitrary approach, she writes about memory, and since memories tend to attach themselves to "things," she writes about collecting and acquiring them in a marvelous chapter entitled "Loot and Lists and Lust (and Things)." And since memories also attach themselves to people, in "Men and God(s)" she talks about men - those in her life and those she's wished were. She remembers the rooms of her childhood and adolescence in "Rooms: Signs and Symbols," and since memories are also housed in our flesh, she has written "Food, Flesh, and Fashion" and "Scars and Distinguishing Marks." Her own brand of experience with the women's movement is dissected in "Home Economics," and human frailty and illness in "Breathing Lessons."

An Accidental Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

"so richly detailed, and palpable with color, fabric and texture, that they are closer to the visual arts than to conventional prose narrative"-The New York Times. With chapters arranged alphabetically, with one memory leading to another,An Accidental Autobiography is a window onto a life lived with warmth, passion, and generosity of spirit-and

Houghton/Mifflin

Unlearning the lie;: Sexism in school

Morrow

Visions of Glory

Robert_Hale

"Italian Days" is one of the richest and most absorbing travel books written--a journey that traverses the Italian peninsula and immerses readers in a culture which provides the reader with a definition of the good life.

History

Atlantic Monthly Press

Self-Help

Liveright

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