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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane?now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword
?This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it?s so delicious, read it first yourself.??USA Today
For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS?s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special!
More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes?widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer?introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys?whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book?s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes?s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book?s most popular characters.
