Flint Public Library (Middleton)

Women in sunlight, a novel, Frances Mayes

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Women in sunlight, a novel, Frances Mayes
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Women in sunlight
Oclc number
993653818
Responsibility statement
Frances Mayes
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery
Table Of Contents
I -- Arrivals -- Crazy salad -- By chance -- II -- Orientation -- A soft duvet -- Exile -- In dreams begin responsibilities -- Muse -- Sand castle -- III -- What do tourists want? -- White wisteria -- San Rocco -- A Domani: See you tomorrow -- The good word: Cena -- Only a week -- The x in flux -- La Raccolta: The harvest -- Green -- The unexpected garden -- Growing transparent -- Discovery walk -- Whatever you want to say -- White paper -- North to Venice -- Yellow vespas -- Invasion -- Clasps and chains -- IV -- What's more precious? -- Susan's sphere -- Holy days -- The seven-thousand-mile conversation -- Scattering -- Paper doors -- By candlelight -- Friends -- V -- In touch -- Crossing the bridge -- Almonds: The first flower -- Lo Studiolo: The studio -- Florence: Winter banished -- A letter to mail? -- OVerheard -- Marvels -- Per Sfizio: For fun -- Bougainvillea, grapes, prickly pear -- Changes cause changes -- Tangos -- Carpe diem -- Pearls -- The opening of paper doors -- VI -- Full terms -- Cutting the distance -- Somewhere, someone -- A parabola of light -- Garden of Earthly delights -- Italic hours -- Assumption -- Leap before you -- Something I meant to say -- First night
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