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Author:	Aldo Buzzi	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Random House Inc	ISBN-10:	0679448101
ISBN-13:	9780679448105	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	1996	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Very Good

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Essays on all manner of wonderful things, including vodka, Heraclitus, Chekhov, risotto, and Eve's intriguing lack of a belly button.
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Length:	147 pages
Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	10.4 oz.

Publisher's Note
Aldo Buzzi traveled the world soaking up the experiences, sights, sounds and tastes that have gone into the creation of these delectable diversions. From exotic ports of call like Djakarta, Gorgonzola, Sicily and Moscow, and featuring menus such as roast monkey, cabbage soup, risotto, and 19 types of vodka, this is a book to satisfy both the senses and the mind.
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"Mr. Buzzi's travels are an idiosyncratic mixture in which real places and precise details are interlocked and superimposed upon one another so that one is rarely certain where the author actually is....Wherever he is and whatever his target, Mr. Buzzi is surprising." Atlantic Monthly - Phoebe-Lou Adams "There are no recent essays anywhere to match them." Publisher's Catalog - Ian Frazier "...Buzzi's book is to be cherished for the great number of odd facts and out-of-the-way anecdotes it proffers. This 'Journey' is an elegant, cerebral adventure which pleases most by reliably surprising....Buzzi calls the pieces 'travels,' and though all but one spring from actual visits he made in Italy and elsewhere, the reader is to expect anything but the usual stuff of travel accounts...." Boston Book Review - David McNeel "...Aldo Buzzi circles the globe, but it's unclear how often he leaves his armchair in Milan. While arcane information, epic lists of details, and vivid evocations of place seem to show him hopscotching around the world, this slender volume describes a map that may exist only in the author's mind....[It] endures in the mind long after the prosaic reports of straightforward travel pieces have faded. Above all, 'Journey to the Land of the Flies' reiterates in its elusive rococo fashion that the richest reward of traveling resides in the process, not the destination..." Washington Post Book World - Michael Mewshaw (05/26/1996) "Erudition and wit characterize these travels into the past with an Italian publisher, writer, gourmand, and lover of women. In free-form essays, Buzzi holds forth on subjects as diverse as the flavors of Russian vodka...; the madness of Joan of Aragon...; and Chekhov's endearments for his wife, Olga...And nobody who reads Buzzi's subtly understated description of the Sun King's tooth extraction will be likely to forget it...Buzzi's writings are as diffuse as they are charming, and shorter than the reader, once engaged, would like. Hopefully, this volume will represent but one of many of his writings to become available in English translation." Bogosian

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0679448101
Title : Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travels
EAN : 9780679448105
Authors : Aldo Buzzi
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Random House
Publication Date : 1996-02-13
Pages : 147
List Price (MSRP) : 23.00
Height : 0.7500 inches
Width : 5.7500 inches
Length : 8.2500 inches
Weight : 0.6300 pounds
Keywords : General, General AAS, Italian, Essays & Travelogues, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Very Good

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