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In Maremma 

by

David Leavitt and 

Mark Mitchell

In Maremma

(2001)
A non fiction book by

David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell

 

A delightfully warm and intimate portrait of life in a small rural town in Tuscany.

In Maremma recounts David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950's farmhouse in southern Tuscany and the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life that foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harvest and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the longing for peanut butter. A celebration and exploration of a little-known part of Italy, In Maremma is also a fond if sometimes critical corrective to other more rapturous portrayals of Tuscany.
 
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Hardback Editions

April 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1582430616Title: In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
Author(s): David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell
ISBN: 1-58243-061-6 / 9781582430614 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Counterpoint
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May 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1582432112Title: In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
Author(s): David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell
ISBN: 1-58243-211-2 / 9781582432113 (USA edition)
Publisher: Counterpoint
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1980 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000N6Y5DOTitle: In Maremma
Author(s): David Leavitt
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