The Marco Chronicles
Author | : Elizabeth Geoghegan |
Publisher | : Shebooks |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781940838113 |
ISBN-13 | : 1940838118 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Get ready to have all your illusions of the glamorous Italian expat life shattered in this hilarious, irreverent memoir of a young American woman's romantic (or rather, unromantic) misadventures in the eternal city. Handsome, charming Roman men; perfectly made cappuccino and risotto; breathtakingly beautiful antiquities and that incomparable Italian light—none of these are perhaps quite as idyllic as they might seem to the casual traveler. With a jaded eye but an always vulnerable heart, Geoghegan gives us the anti-Eat, Pray, Love, a tale every bit as atmospheric but way funnier than the runaway best-seller. This is what life in Italy really looks like when you're a 30-something woman running from grief and trying to find the way back to love.