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A Tuscan Childhood (Vintage Departures)
Author: Kinta Beevor

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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback

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ISBN-13: 9780375704260 - ISBN-10: 0375704264
Publication Date: 2/8/2000
Pages: 320

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Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:

"Wonderful...I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the wars.

When Kinta Beeevor was five, her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, bought the sixteenth-century Fortezza della Brunella in the Tuscan village of Aulla. There her parents were part of a vibrant artistic community that included Aldous Huxley, Bernard Berenson, and D. H. Lawrence. Meanwhile, Kinta and her brother explored the glorious countryside, participated in the region's many seasonal rites and rituals, and came to know and love the charming, resilient Italian people. With the coming of World War II the family had to leave Aulla; years later, though, Kinta would return to witness the courage and skill of the Tuscan people as they rebuilt their lives. Lyrical and witty, A Tuscan Childhood is alive with the timeless splendour of Italy.

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Genres:

Biographies & Memoirs >> Family & Childhood
Biographies & Memoirs >> Travel
History >> Europe >> Italy >> General
Travel >> Europe >> Italy >> General

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G B. (Turtle) wrote on 11/7/2008...

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It at first reads like a boring account of an upper-crust Brit's life in Tuscany. But I hung in there and found it to be a delightful account of a woman's life starting in childhood as she embraces Italian culture. It's viewed through an intellectual and upper class lifestyle, but with sensitive insight into the Italian people and their way of life. Also an interesting insight into the politics and life through the World War and its affects on the landscape, peoples lives and the changes and adaptations to post-war rebuilding of the country. I enjoyed revisiting places I have visited just recently in a trip to Europe and as and Italian-American I enjoyed her descriptive accounts of Italian life.