Pasquale's Nose Idle Days in an Italian Town |
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Author:
| Rips, Michael |
Editor:
| Clain, Judy |
ISBN: | 978-0-316-74800-1 |
Publication Date: | May 2001 |
Publisher: | Little Brown & Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $23.95USD $23.45 |
Book Description:
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Everywhere hailed for its quirkiness, its hilarity, its charm, PASQUALE'S NOSE tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and new baby, and discovers a community of true eccentrics--warring bean growers, vanishing philosophers, a blind bootmaker, a porcupine hunter--among whom he feels unexpectedly at home. . A book of odd delights--great reading for the armchair traveler. . A tonic for readers who find Peter Mayle's Provence and...
More DescriptionEverywhere hailed for its quirkiness, its hilarity, its charm, PASQUALE'S NOSE tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and new baby, and discovers a community of true eccentrics--warring bean growers, vanishing philosophers, a blind bootmaker, a porcupine hunter--among whom he feels unexpectedly at home. . A book of odd delights--great reading for the armchair traveler. . A tonic for readers who find Peter Mayle's Provence and Frances Mayes's Tuscany lacking in spice.