An Italian Affair |  | Author: Laura Fraser
Publisher: Vintage
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 25,955
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1st
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7092
ASIN: B000QCS9KA
Publication Date: July 17, 2001
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Product Description
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual vacation tryst turns into a passionate, transatlantic love affair, as they rendezvous in London, Marrakech, Milan, the Aeolian Islands, and San Francisco. Each encounter is a delirious immersion into place (sumptuous food and wine, dazzling scenery, lush gardens, and vibrant streetscapes) and into each other. And with each experience, Laura brings home not only a lasting sense of pleasure, but a more fully recovered sense of her emotional and sexual self. Written with an observant eye, an open mind, and a delightful sense of humor, An Italian Affair has the irresistible honesty of a story told from and about the heart.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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 A beautiful, sensual love story January 9, 2006
Etruria (Washington DC)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is a very quick read but it is beautiful, sensual and fun. Fraser chronicles a jet-set love affair with a French man after a divorace. I read it once a year while lounging in the sunshine. The descriptions of food, place and character are vivid and delicious. Be sure to have some crusty bread, fresh mozzarella, tomato, basil, and olive oil on hand while reading this book!
Bella, Bella!! August 22, 2003
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4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Until I can really afford the pleasure to be a world traveller I shall live vicariously through the many author's lives whose memoirs have touched me so deeply and have even sustained my yearning to visit the extraordinary places they write about. Amongst these great authors is Laura Fraser. Her memoir, in which I have just finished, completely captivated me from the first page. It was not so much the love affair that captured my heart but rather her elaborate depiction of every city and every island that she and her lover visited together. It is not hard to feel as though you are there with them in the most enchanting places. I suggest to anyone that shares such a "joie de vive" to buy this book, sit down with a bottle of wine and emmerse yourself in the warmth and amazing beauty of it's pages! "Ricorda e non dimenticare, non `e mai sbagliato amare."(From "An Italian Affair")
Perfect summer read June 11, 2001
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
I just finished reading An Italian Affair over the week-end. It's a beautiful description of both the author's coming to terms with her divorce and the exotic locations that form the backdrop for her visits with the professor. It takes the reader along as they learn from each other and as their relationship changes and evolves. I've recommended the book to a number of friends, including a few who have recently gone through their own break-ups and are struggling to make sense of it all. Part love story, part travel story (I want to see some of those places now!) and part self exploration - it's a perfect summer read.
Delicious Reading December 10, 2003
Redmund K. Sum (Los Altos, CA USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am not a fan of romantic novels, but I really enjoyed reading this book. The perfect mix of flirtatious romance, exotic scenery and food, and an occasional outpour of tender emotions makes this book refreshingly enticing. The liberal sprinkling of Italian phrases is a charm rather than a distraction because the author skillfully makes sure that her readers understand the conversation.This is a first person narrative written in a second person style. It is a bit strange at first, but you get use to it real fast! This is the perfect book for the rainy weekend. Highly recommended.
A Champagne Cocktail: Light and Charming August 1, 2001
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is charming, from start to finish. It is billed as non-fiction. If it were fiction, something dramatic would have to happen. But as it is, this memoir of an angst-free international affair reads like a cross between an early Susan Cheever novel like "Looking for Work" and a Shirley Hazzard novel set in Italy, like "The Evening of the Holiday." The book is drenched in Mediterranean food and sunlight. The narrator, Laura, is a lovely woman, a big blonde American, perhaps just a tad too concerned with her weight. (How many more conversations can we women be subjected to about diets? It's boring and it holds us back!) There's a lot of sex in this book, yet Laura is never explicit, and frankly, I'd like to know more about her lover. I nearly didn't read this book because of the author's weird decision to employ the second person voice. Why did she do this? After a couple of pages I didn't notice it, the way you don't notice subtitles on a foreign film after a moment. Despite this, the writing is crisp, the organization is simple but enviable, and I highly recommend this book to any woman looking for a charming, diverting read.
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