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PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill

ISBN-101565123212

ISBN-139781565123212

eBay Product ID (ePID)2189567

Product Key Features

Book TitleThousand Days in Venice : an Unexpected Romance

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEurope / Italy, Personal Memoirs, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2002

GenreTravel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

TypeTextbook

AuthorMarlena De Blasi

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length7.2 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-018305

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingA

Reviews"An irresistible grown-up love story." -USA Today "Better than a romance novel, it's the real thing." -New Orleans Times-Picayune "The story sounds impossibly romantic . . . [But] this moonstruck tale is absolutely true . . . It is, surprisingly, a story with a happy ending-reached, as real-life happy endings must be, not by fiat but by accommodation." -The Boston Globe "A little cioppino of a book, a tasty stew with equal parts travel adn food and romance, spiced up with goodly amounts of fantasy-come-true." -The Seattle Post-Intelligencer "The 'happily-ever-after' is riveting and the recipes are mouthwatering just to read." -The Philadelphia Inquirer, "An irresistible grown-up love story." --USA Today "Better than a romance novel, it's the real thing." --New Orleans Times-Picayune "The story sounds impossibly romantic . . . [But] this moonstruck tale is absolutely true . . . It is, surprisingly, a story with a happy ending--reached, as real-life happy endings must be, not by fiat but by accommodation." --The Boston Globe "A little cioppino of a book, a tasty stew with equal parts travel adn food and romance, spiced up with goodly amounts of fantasy-come-true." --The Seattle Post-Intelligencer "The 'happily-ever-after' is riveting and the recipes are mouthwatering just to read." --The Philadelphia Inquirer, "An irresistible grown-up love story." --USA Today "Better than a romance novel, it's the real thing." --New Orleans Times-Picayune "The story sounds impossibly romantic . . . [But] this moonstruck tale is absolutely true . . . It is, surprisingly, a story with a happy ending--reached, as real-life happy endings must be, not by fiat but by accommodation." --The Boston Globe "A little cioppino of a book, a tasty stew with equal parts travel adn food and romance, spiced up with goodly amounts of fantasy-come-true." --The Seattle Post-Intelligencer "The 'happily-ever-after' is riveting and the recipes are mouthwatering just to read." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

Dewey Decimal945/.31/092 B

Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition

SynopsisWhen Fernando spots her in a Venice caf and knows immediately that she is the One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman traveling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she quits her job as a chef, sells her house, kisses her two grown kids good-bye, and moves to Venice. Once there, she finds herself sitting in sugar-scented pasticcerie, strolling through sixteenth-century palazzi, renovating an apartment overlooking the seductive Adriatic Sea, and preparing to wed a virtual stranger in an ancient stone church.As this transplanted American learns the hard way about the peculiarities of Venetian culture, we are treated to an honest, often comic view of how two middle-aged people, both set in their ways but also set on being together, build a life. A Thousand Days in Venice is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with recipes and culinary observations. But the main course here is about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't know she was missing. It's a deliciously satisfying meal., Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice caf a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she has quit her job, sold her house in St. Louis, kissed her two grown sons good-bye, and moved to Venice to marry "the stranger," as she calls Fernando. This deliciously satisfying memoir is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with culinary observations and recipes. But the main course here is an enchanting true story about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't even know she was missing., Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice cafe a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she has quit her job, sold her house in St. Louis, kissed her two grown sons good-bye, and moved to Venice to marry the stranger, as she calls Fernando. This deliciously satisfying memoir is filled with the foods and flavors of Italy and peppered with culinary observations and recipes. But the main course here is an enchanting true story about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn t even know she was missing."

LC Classification NumberDG674.2