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La Bella Vita: Life, Love and and Food in Southern Italy
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers (2006-03-08)
ISBN: 1840244895
EAN: 9781840244892
Paperback: 288 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Fantastic Book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-09-07
I have just finished reading this book for the 3rd time, and am sure I will be reading it again soon. Adamoli is a great writer and you really feel as though you are in the beautiful seaside village with her. You are there when she discovers it, and you are there years later when the tourist trade is taking over.
She also has a little reciepe at the start of each chapter which is a nice idea! If you love reading books about Italy but are sick of the 'Under the Tuscan Sun' type books then this is for you!
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Breathtakingly visual
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-12-14
I was given this book to read by a friend in England, and was totally taken by surprise - this is a wonderful book; vivid, truthful and entertaining.
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La Bella Vita
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-06-01
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have just noticed that this title was released again in 2006 with a slightly longer title 'La Bella Vita Life Love and Food in Southern Italy'. I have just read the original paperback edition though,
I always enjoy books about life in Italy, hardly surprising really! This one was an easy read with each chapter painting a vivid picture of Italian village life in the 1960's until the 1980's. Vida Adamoli has some interesting tales to tell of life in Torre Saracena (not the real name)and of how the 20th century eventually and sadly caught up with it.
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As close as you can get without moving in yourself.
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-09-06
26 out of 28 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was given this book & thought it was going to be your usual "foreigner in local Italian town reprises vignettes for us to laugh at".....how wrong could I be. Vida's lack of sentimentality, willingness to report truthfully (even if she sometimes comes out of it less than glowingly), and keen details make this a book to treasure. Each chapter reads like a complete story so you can pick it up and put it down - and in fact I had to - it is so rich and evocative - I LOVED the cinema descriptions and stories - reading it was like being there - and this is certiaily the closest I would ever get to this experience. You have to be living it to be able to write like this.
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fond memories
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-08-04
13 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
in reading Vida Adamoli's book "la bella vita" I thought I recognized the village of Torre Saracena.
Actually the real name of the village is another one, and I do not intend to give it away. As Vida, I want to respect the privacy of the village and of its inhabitants.
Anyhow, the book moved me particularly as I stayed, alas for a too short period, in Torre Saracena, and while reading "la bella vita" I heard the seawawes crashing over the rocks, smelled the sea brine, the basil, the fish being grilled, and felt the warmth of the sun on my body.
Thank you Vida for making me revisit the place and the times past.
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Retail Price: £7.99
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