Marcus of Umbria : what an Italian dog taught an American girl about love
(Book)
Author
Published
Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale, c2010.
Format
Book
Status
Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
945.651 VAN DER
1 available
945.651 VAN DER
1 available
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Forks - Nonfiction (Adult) | 945.651 VAN DER | Available |
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LC Subjects
Americans -- Italy -- Umbria -- Biography.
Collelungo (Italy) -- Biography.
Collelungo (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
Dogs -- Italy -- Umbria.
Human-animal relationships -- Italy -- Case studies.
Man-woman relationships -- Italy -- Case studies.
Umbria (Italy) -- Biography.
Umbria (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
Van der Leun, Justine -- Relations with men.
Van der Leun, Justine.
Collelungo (Italy) -- Biography.
Collelungo (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
Dogs -- Italy -- Umbria.
Human-animal relationships -- Italy -- Case studies.
Man-woman relationships -- Italy -- Case studies.
Umbria (Italy) -- Biography.
Umbria (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
Van der Leun, Justine -- Relations with men.
Van der Leun, Justine.
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Published
Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale, c2010.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Description
Tired of laboring in city cubicles, the author sublets her studio apartment, leaves her magazine job, and moves to Collelungo, Italy, population: 200. There, in the ancient city center of a historic Umbrian village, she sets up house with the handsome local gardener she met on vacation only weeks earlier. This impulsive decision launches an eye-opening series of misadventures when village life and romance turn out to be radically different from what she had imagined. Love lost with the gardener is found instead with Marcus, an abandoned English pointer that she rescues. With Marcus by her side, Justine discovers the bliss and hardship of living in the countryside: herding sheep, tending to wild horses, picking olives with her adopted Italian family, and trying her best to learn the regional dialect. Not quite up to wild boar hunting, no good at gathering mushrooms, and no mamma when it comes to making pasta, she never quite fits in with the locals who, despite their differences, take her in as one of their own. The result is a rich, comic, and unconventional portrait about learning to live and love in the most unexpected ways.