Author: Valerie Barona
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785890786
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A light-hearted look at life in a sleepy Italian village which slowly awakes to the twenty-first century. In 1977, Valerie Barona made the decision to join her husband in Piussogno, a small mountain village in northern Italy. An English teacher born and raised in Dorset, she told of her early years in Piussogno in That’s Amore!, (Matador, 2013) and now revisits her life as a mother and housewife in the 1980s, trying to give her two children an English upbringing thousands of miles from home. Both children, Alex and Elisa, were bilingual by the age of two and enjoyed annual wet summers in Poole while their friends visited the Adriatic coast. Valerie herself took an active part in village life, singing in the church choir and giving English lessons, not to mention shooing the occasional stray cow from the garden. She takes a light-hearted look at her attempts to recreate English cooking and her gradual adjustment to a rural way of life which no longer exists in Italy. As the book draws closer to 2015 and Valerie becomes a grandmother, she marvels at how Piussogno has changed and how quickly her children have grown up. As the title of the book says, Mamma Mia... That’s Life! Valerie’s writing is light and peppered with very English humour. It’s a book to pick up and flick through to relax, and picture an Italian village as it was over thirty years ago. It will appeal to fans of travel writing, particularly lovers of Italy.
Mamma Mia... That's Life!
Author: Valerie Barona
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785890786
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A light-hearted look at life in a sleepy Italian village which slowly awakes to the twenty-first century. In 1977, Valerie Barona made the decision to join her husband in Piussogno, a small mountain village in northern Italy. An English teacher born and raised in Dorset, she told of her early years in Piussogno in That’s Amore!, (Matador, 2013) and now revisits her life as a mother and housewife in the 1980s, trying to give her two children an English upbringing thousands of miles from home. Both children, Alex and Elisa, were bilingual by the age of two and enjoyed annual wet summers in Poole while their friends visited the Adriatic coast. Valerie herself took an active part in village life, singing in the church choir and giving English lessons, not to mention shooing the occasional stray cow from the garden. She takes a light-hearted look at her attempts to recreate English cooking and her gradual adjustment to a rural way of life which no longer exists in Italy. As the book draws closer to 2015 and Valerie becomes a grandmother, she marvels at how Piussogno has changed and how quickly her children have grown up. As the title of the book says, Mamma Mia... That’s Life! Valerie’s writing is light and peppered with very English humour. It’s a book to pick up and flick through to relax, and picture an Italian village as it was over thirty years ago. It will appeal to fans of travel writing, particularly lovers of Italy.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785890786
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A light-hearted look at life in a sleepy Italian village which slowly awakes to the twenty-first century. In 1977, Valerie Barona made the decision to join her husband in Piussogno, a small mountain village in northern Italy. An English teacher born and raised in Dorset, she told of her early years in Piussogno in That’s Amore!, (Matador, 2013) and now revisits her life as a mother and housewife in the 1980s, trying to give her two children an English upbringing thousands of miles from home. Both children, Alex and Elisa, were bilingual by the age of two and enjoyed annual wet summers in Poole while their friends visited the Adriatic coast. Valerie herself took an active part in village life, singing in the church choir and giving English lessons, not to mention shooing the occasional stray cow from the garden. She takes a light-hearted look at her attempts to recreate English cooking and her gradual adjustment to a rural way of life which no longer exists in Italy. As the book draws closer to 2015 and Valerie becomes a grandmother, she marvels at how Piussogno has changed and how quickly her children have grown up. As the title of the book says, Mamma Mia... That’s Life! Valerie’s writing is light and peppered with very English humour. It’s a book to pick up and flick through to relax, and picture an Italian village as it was over thirty years ago. It will appeal to fans of travel writing, particularly lovers of Italy.
That's Life: It's Sexually Transmitted and Terminal
Author: Barry Friedman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435754360
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A collection of vignettes: some humorous, some sad. But all are true. Well, perhaps embellished. They relate the author's experiences as a medical student, intern, World War II Naval Medical Officer, and more than fifty years as an orthopaedic surgeon.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435754360
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A collection of vignettes: some humorous, some sad. But all are true. Well, perhaps embellished. They relate the author's experiences as a medical student, intern, World War II Naval Medical Officer, and more than fifty years as an orthopaedic surgeon.
LIFE
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
The Continent
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Rosa
Author: Michela Valmori
Publisher: Booksprint
ISBN: 8824922805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Living as a young Italian American woman in early 1900 New York was not easy; seventeen year-old Rosa, arrived in America from her sunny and dry spot of land in Italy, had to face many life struggles. Her many expectations were soon shattered by reality and despite her determination she had to fight hard in order to conquer her corner of the world.
Publisher: Booksprint
ISBN: 8824922805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Living as a young Italian American woman in early 1900 New York was not easy; seventeen year-old Rosa, arrived in America from her sunny and dry spot of land in Italy, had to face many life struggles. Her many expectations were soon shattered by reality and despite her determination she had to fight hard in order to conquer her corner of the world.
Simon Cowell
Author: Chas Newkey-Burden
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1843174456
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In Simon Cowell Chas Newkey-Burden finds out, interviewing friends and old colleagues, and lifting the lid on the professional and private life of one of Britain's most eligible batchelors.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1843174456
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In Simon Cowell Chas Newkey-Burden finds out, interviewing friends and old colleagues, and lifting the lid on the professional and private life of one of Britain's most eligible batchelors.
The Languages of Joyce
Author: Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902727407X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and modes of communication and meaning, but, as well, concepts of significance and communication in broader contexts. Through Joyce, the writers explore and develop their own approaches and theories about language and languages, about semiotics and understanding. And about psychology, gender, physiology, politics, philosophy, linguistics, science, and culture. About literature in other words.’
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902727407X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and modes of communication and meaning, but, as well, concepts of significance and communication in broader contexts. Through Joyce, the writers explore and develop their own approaches and theories about language and languages, about semiotics and understanding. And about psychology, gender, physiology, politics, philosophy, linguistics, science, and culture. About literature in other words.’
Our Continent
Author: Albion Winegar Tourgée
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Silver Lining
Author: Sandi Toksvig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350038253
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
How unbelievably dull my life was. I did everything I was supposed to. I was such a good girl. I lived in the house he chose and cleaned a dead woman's furniture. I bought hats, who the hell wears a hat? And all the time I wanted to scream because I was so bored. On one dark and stormy night in the upper day room of the Silver Retirement Home, five elderly women are trading stories of their remarkable (or sometimes unremarkable) lives. With the storm floods rising and no rescue team in sight, the ladies are faced with the sudden realisation that in order to survive they are going to have to do what they have done for their entire lives – do it themselves! Silver Lining is a hilarious comedy by Sandi Toksvig. It tells the tale of a group of extraordinary yet forgotten women, who come together one treacherous night to recreate The Great Escape – senior-citizen style. It received its world premiere at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, on 3 February 2017 in a production by English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre, Kingston.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350038253
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
How unbelievably dull my life was. I did everything I was supposed to. I was such a good girl. I lived in the house he chose and cleaned a dead woman's furniture. I bought hats, who the hell wears a hat? And all the time I wanted to scream because I was so bored. On one dark and stormy night in the upper day room of the Silver Retirement Home, five elderly women are trading stories of their remarkable (or sometimes unremarkable) lives. With the storm floods rising and no rescue team in sight, the ladies are faced with the sudden realisation that in order to survive they are going to have to do what they have done for their entire lives – do it themselves! Silver Lining is a hilarious comedy by Sandi Toksvig. It tells the tale of a group of extraordinary yet forgotten women, who come together one treacherous night to recreate The Great Escape – senior-citizen style. It received its world premiere at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, on 3 February 2017 in a production by English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre, Kingston.