Title: Vastly overrated consumerist sludge
Product review: I had high hopes for this book, but was terribly disappointed. For all the nuance of Italian life this volume conveyed, it could have been a book about home repair in Terre Haute, Indiana. The author comes across as an upper class Southern belle twit who is inexplicably employed as a creative writing instructor at San Francisco State, a gritty blue-collar campus. She's so involved with her job and students there that they merit no mention at all, except perhaps as impediments to her yuppie quest in Tuscany.This book is a triumph of marketing over substance. I was hoping to learn something about Tuscany or Italian mores, but all I got was the author's self-indulgent small talk. She did, however, answer one question for me: Who can possibly afford to shop in Florence?
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