勉强的托斯卡纳人 The Reluctant Tuscan
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作者： Phil Doran 著
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出版时间： 2005-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 306印刷时间： 2005/04/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781592401185包装： 精装内容简介
Readers of Doran's amusing memoir about relocating from Los Angeles to the tiny Tuscan town of Cambione must first suspend their disbelief that a person in his right mind would actively resist such an opportunity. But resist Doran does—and when his sculptor wife buys a ramshackle, 300-year-old house there on a whim, she must drag him kicking and screaming out of his high-stress, low-reward life as a Hollywood writer and producer (among his hits: Who's the Boss? and The Wonder Years). What follows is rather predictable: the house turns out to be in even worse shape than anyone imagined, and the construction crew has no "discernable pattern" when it comes to showing up for work. Lines like "Things happen in Italy that don't happen anywhere else on earth. A magical friendliness is spread all over the place like pixie dust" don't do much to distinguish Doran's story from other books of its ilk, but the author's grudging optimism and dead-on ear for dialogue certainly do. Doran's brutally funny accounts of tangles with everyone (including the mayor, the police, an inefficient landlord and Doran's long-suffering wife) are enough to keep readers hooked until the last page. It may not be a surprise that he lives happily ever after, but how he gets there is certainly worth the ride.
目录
1II Piccolo Rustico
2Cambione
3Stranieri in Paradise
4Castagne
5All in the Famiglia
6In Bocca al Lupo
7The Comeback Kid
8. Giornalista
9InSindaco
1OTrapassato Prossimo
11II Dipartimento d'Autorieazione della LiceneaEdilieia
12L'Avvocato
13 Un Giro
14L'Estate
I5La Prova
I6Il Sentiero
I7Tito Tughi's Auto Mundo
I8Areheologia
I9Omertd
20ZumZug
21uz.zania
22Fiesole
23Carabinieri
24Ospedale
25Misericordia
26La Festa della Liberazione
27Ferragosto
28Ritorno Subito
29Cinghiale
30Citt@az, za
31Fare una Bella Figura
32Il Raccolto
33Cavallomania
34Lo Sci@ero
35Tanti Auguri
36La Luna di Miele
