Frances Mayes

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Mexico

20th-Anniversary Edition

Applies a poet's sensibility, a traveler's eye, and a cook's palate to the pleasures of the Tuscan countryside, where the author began restoring an abandoned villa

Under the Tuscan Sun

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Seasons of an Italian Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A TIMELESS CLASSIC FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA
 
Frances Mayes--widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer--opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. Mayes also creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes from her traditional kitchen and simple garden, all of which she includes in the book. Doing for Tuscany what M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle did for Provence, Mayes writes about the tastes and pleasures of a foreign country with gusto and passion.

Now with an excerpt from Frances Mayes's latest southern memoir, Under Magnolia

Every Day in Tuscany

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Excellent condition from a smoke-free home

Ohio

The Sweet Life in Italy

The author explores life in the idyllic Italian countryside, offering authentic Tuscan recipes and intimately portraying the local people and the environment

Bella Tuscany

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This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours of your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Texas

Maryland

A Novel

"A coversation with Frances Mayes first appeared on Read it foreward in 2018"--Title page verso.

Women in Sunlight

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Former Library Book. Great Shape, Plastic Dusk Jacket.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nevada

A Southern Memoir

The best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun shares the story of her youth in the American South and her decision to return to the places that shaped her early ideals, a journey marked by her regional travels and growing appreciation for Southern writers. 80,000 first printing.

Under Magnolia

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Pennsylvania

New York

From her peaceful Tuscan, Hillside, writer, kit, rain witnesses the chaotic arrival of three American women with their mountain of luggage and a dog. She’s intrigued they’re not just on vacation she surmises she experiences a strange adult that as a writer, she recognizes inspiration, the women, Julia, Camille, and Susan have launched a spontaneous friendship back in North Carolina Susan the most audacious of the three has announced them to subvert expectations of state retirement by leasing the beautiful abandoned villa Asunta, the three women are funny and profound, questioning and domestic through novices in a foreign culture, a new sense of adventure, and booze, each of them with the bright sense of bravery Augusto for life and appears determination to thrive.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

The story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional year, from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
 
Don't miss Frances Mayes in PBS's Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special!

She watches from her terrazza as the three American women carry their luggage into the stone villa down the hill. Who are they, and what brings them to this Tuscan village so far from home? An expat herself and with her own unfinished story, she can't help but question: will they find what they came for?

Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of her close friend, a complex woman who continues to cast a shadow on Kit's own life. Her work is waylaid by the arrival of three women--Julia, Camille, and Susan--all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship that will uproot them completely and redirect their lives. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a bright sense of bravery, a gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive. But how? With Kit's friendship and guidance, the three friends launch themselves into Italian life, pursuing passions long-forgotten--and with drastic and unforeseeable results.

Louisiana

Under Magnolia (ARC)

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Washington

At Home in Italy

Applies a poet's sensibility, a traveler's eye, and a cook's palate to the pleasures of the Tuscan countryside, where the author began restoring an abandoned villa.

  A year in the world is vintage Francis Mayes- a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest.

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California

Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

The author details her travels to Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Turkey, Greece, southern Italy, and North Africa, interweaving personal insights with commentary on art, history, landscape, culture, and tradition.

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