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Under the Tuscan Sun: Book Review for Geography
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“The house is a metaphor for the self,” writes Frances Mayes in her narrative of buying and restoring an abandoned farmhouse in Tuscany. The stories told by Mayes in Under the Tuscan Sun express a two-fold journey, the first, a physical journey through place and landscape and the second, an exploration of the inner self. Under the Tuscan Sun traces the countless steps Mayes and her companion go through in searching for, purchasing and eventually restoring an abandoned villa, locally know, as Bramasole. However, while Mayes relates the psychologically charged process of trading a "sack of money" for a Renaissance stone edifice in the quaint village of Cortona, the house and land quickly assume a literary role much greater than that o
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