| #887117 in Books | National Geographic | 2003-03-01 | 2003-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.80 x5.70l,.84 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| A concise and insightful view of Sicily|By Stephen O. Murray|Novelist Francine Prose's slim but not slight book is filled with insights and evocative appreciation of the often-invaded island of Sicily and its hybrid art and cuisine. Her book provides a good introduction to Sicily, and also provides many interesting reflections for those who have visited the island and are fam|.com |Francine Prose might well find herself on one of those lists of oddly appropriate congruency between name and occupation. Indeed the prolific writer has demonstrated an enviable versatility in her witty fictional works and journalistic forays. Yet at her
A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment to the extreme," where the history is more colorful, the sun hotter, the cooking earthier, the violence more horrific, the carnival more raucous, the polit...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Sicilian Odyssey (National Geographic Directions) | Francine Prose. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
