Author: MEYER, JOYCE
Title: Ricordi: Remembrances of Italy
Description: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Queenston House, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. 0919866662 283 pages. Author relives a golden decade in that most sensual of countries, Italy. Awarded the Literature Prize in a Canada-wide contest sponsored by the Italian government, the city of Ottawa and the Italian community of Ottawa to mark Italian week, 1980, Ricordi recreates vividly for the armchair traveller the sights, sounds and smells of Rome, where the author was working at FAO, and of the hills of Tuscany, where she sold farmhouses and castles to the wealthy. The intimate story of her friendships and liaisons, reveals a North American psyche transformed by the Italian people and their exuberance for life. Average wear to maroon covers and unmarked contents.. Good .

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