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No Magic Eden (Paperback, Main)
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No Magic Eden (Paperback, Main)
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First published in 1972, Shirley Guiton's account of life on the
Venetian island of Torcello begins with her purchase of a
dilapidated property and vineyard there, and goes on to describe
the many difficulties she encountered in the course of renovating
her new home and making the overgrown vineyard productive again.
But, with her deepening understanding and experience of the island,
the book comes to encompass the whole life of the people who live
there, and includes a dramatic account of the disastrous Great
Flood which occurred in 1966. This by-now familiar form of
narrative was scarcely with precedent when first published. As
Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson says, 'This was years before A Year
in Provence or Driving Over Lemons reminded readers that they, too,
could forsake the grey skies of northern Europe and find the sun -
and a collection of locals who would make excellent copy for the
books they might write. A publishing industry would blossom ...
Shirley was, in a sense, there first.' 'She has even achieved what
Mary McCarthy assured all and sundry was impossible - to say
something about Venice which previous visitors had not said before
... These pages are touched with Venetian serenity and illuminated
by the eccentric lights of the lagoon.' Michael Foot (Evening
Standard) 'The most vivid description I've ever read of that
fearful 4th of November when Venice was flooded.' John Julius
Norwich (BBC Now Read On)
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