Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Author Grove/Atlantic $0 (479p) ISBN 978-1-55584-311-3
This is a rare pleasure: a travel book of almost Victorian amplitude that is also the product of a keen contemporary mind. Harrison, one of the best essayists around, as well as an occasional short story writer and a one-time novelist, journeyed to...
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Author Mariner Books $15.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-395-55131-8
Harrison journeyed to Italy in search of a national ethos as well as her own past. She discovered a great deal about both. `` Italian Days does what all really fine travel writing does: it inspires the reader to look at life's possibilities anew,''...
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-59105-5
Harrison is among our most eloquent journalists, and if there is one characteristic that informs this collection of essays and stories, most of which appeared previously in Partisan Review , the New York Times , Commonweal and other journals, it is...
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-78000-8
Explaining her autobiographical strategies, Harrison (The Astonishing World, etc.) writes, ""This isn't a digression. In memory, which is not hierarchical, there are no digressions."" Full of quirky tangents under whatever guise, her nonlinear...
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Author Mariner Books $14 (396p) ISBN 978-0-395-86000-7
PW wrote that this nonlinear travelogue/memoir ""will enchant or infuriate readers, according to taste."" (May)
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Author, Sheila Nardulli, Photographer, Shelia Nardulli, Photographer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $40 (152p) ISBN 978-0-395-59302-8
In memory of her Italian immigrant grandparents and ``because the islands are so beautifully there,'' as she notes in the introduction, Harrison ( Italian Days ) visited Sicily, Sardinia and the Aeolian islands in 1990 with freelance travel...
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