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Notes from a Roman Terrace
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Notes from a Roman Terrace

by Joan Marble
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Black Swan (2004-04-01)
ISBN: 0552771082
EAN: 9780552771085
Dewy Decimal #: 712.60945632
Paperback: 304 pages
Edition: New Ed
SKU: B465-1090
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.

Customer Reviews
Notes from a Roman Terrace
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-02-18

I really wanted to hate this book! The first few pages made me want to gag with their very Frances May-esquness and typical expat perfectness, but once I got into the meat of the book it really was very good. I found Ms Marble's treatment of Italian politics readable and accurate and I really enjoyed her insights into the plants that she uses on her terrace. We lived in Rome for 9 years and now live in Umbria and her suggestions are useful here too.
Notes from a Roman Terrace
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-06-15
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful

A thoroughly enjoyable book for people who like true stories. The domestic life along with political views and history made the book unsentimentally charming. I am now going to read Notes from an Italian Garden.
La Dolce Vita Redux
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-08-25
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful

Joan Marble¹s new book "Notes from a Roman Terrace" is a must for every thinking woman's travel bag, whether or not you are bound for Italy. Her wry comments on Italian life and politics, seen from an insider-foreigner¹s point of view, spice up the idea of La Dolce Vita. Far more than a selective memoir of 50 years in Rome, she has the knack of informing while entertaining with wit and charm and a total lack of condescension so rare among writers about host countries. Too good for male consumption? Not in my experience!
A great read!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-07-26
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful

Joan Marble is a wonderful storyteller who takes us entertainingly through tales culled from almost 50 years of living in Rome. Since Joan started her career as a UPI journalist, this is not your usual book about the charming locals. It is a rather insightful and incisive look into the Italian lifestyle, the bureaucratic bungling and the social and political intrigues that make Italy what it is. Sprinkled throughout are some wonderful descriptions of some of the more unique Roman terrace gardens. Whether you love travel writing, sociology or just a cracking good read, this book is for you.
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