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Rising From The Mist in the sun-blushed hills of Tuscany is Il Piccolo Rustico, a 300-year-old stone farmhouse that Nancy Doran dreams of lovingly restoring into an idlyllic home. All her husband Phil can see is a crumbling money pit that, as far as dreams go, is more of a nightmare. Reluctantly leaving behind high -octane, air-conditioned Los Angeles where he lives and works as a writer-producer, Phil is uprooted to a strange country intoxicated by O sole mio, virgin olive oil and oak-aged Chianti. The local village reveals itself to be a hive of seething passions, secrets and age-old blood feuds, and the newcomers find that life is not all strolls around town during the passagiato and relaxing under the awnings of picturesque cafes. Beset by a rift of exasperating challenges - from the cunning tricks of the Pinatore family to an infuriating Byzantine Italian bureaucracy - it is only with an inspired touch of the 'Inner Italian' that Phil and Nancy finally manage to soften the hearts of their neighbours and are embraced by the community.
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Steven Montesano
reviewed The reluctant Tuscan on December 11, 2012
The reluctant Tuscan
After reading this book I have mixed emotions. I loved the story of the people who live in this little town in Tuscany, but I didn't like some of the meanness of the author and his wife. I understood their reasons for being devious to the people in this town, but at the same time it seemed like instead of getting an attorney and working towards a mutual solution for everyone, they chose to be petty and spiteful, just like their neighbor.
The author also shows how much us Americans are pampered in our air conditioned lives.
But, the author also shows how, in this day and age, you can live in a different time and be happy. The life they live in Tuscany could be set back in the 1020's. So if you never left that town again, it would be like stepping back in time and life now in America would not exist.
There are so many places in this book that I just burst out laughing. It made me smile a lot. If the author and his wife could have gotten past the petty it would have been a great story.
A lot of the story also had me wondering if the author took a lot of "leeway" in describing what they actually went through to get this house built and livable. Some of the descriptions of the people sounded like caricatures and not actually how it was.
But all that said, I enjoyed this book a lot, and would recommend it to anyone who likes a romp through history and a good laugh.
I am hoping Phil Doran and his wife have settled in to their new way of life in Tuscany and that they and the town have come to love each other.
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