Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Year: 1964
Rank:
Rating:
Original Rating:
Pop Rating:
Genres/categories:
Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs
Purchase/reserch links:
ISBNs:
9780394716312
0394716310 |
| 
This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, "my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just as much of its reality is based on my own shadows, my inventions." A vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.
A Considerable Town
M.F.K. Fisher scans the centuries to reveal the ancient sources that clarify the Marseille of today and the indestructible nature of its people A delightful journey filtered through the senses of a profound writer.
Similar books:
|
