Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes
Posted on March 21, 2011
by Anne
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I was tricked into buying this book. The ladies at the library all said it was fabulous. “I saw the movie…” I began.
“It is totally different,” they said. “You must read it, travelling as much as you do.”
Under the Tuscan Sun is listed as a “Travel/Memoir”.
I recently saw the movie Adaptation
, where Nicholas Cage plays a guy trying to write a screenplay for a very popular book that has no plot. This book also has no plot. The film adaptation created a story where the narrator flees her real life after her husband leaves her and starts over in Tuscany. The real story is that a lady and her significant other, who had vacationed in Italy a whole lot, finally decide to buy property. So I can’t blame Hollywood this time.
I feel badly for my lack of enthusiasm because I know it is partly because Under the Tuscan Sun suffers by comparison to Julia Child’s My Life in France
. In fact, Frances Mayes even drops the name of Simone Beck, friend and writing partner of Julia Child.
But honestly. I found it rather dull.
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I agree. However, her ex-husband's book, "A Year in Provence," is wonderful. I think she was riding his coattails.