Title: Poetic? Hardly. Judgmental and shrill.
Product review: This is a tedious, pretentious book. It purports to describe a year in Greece (really, a year? it seems like ten) but succeeds only in revealing the shortcomings -literary and otherwise- of its protagonist. It fails as a narrative (too disjointed, too self-absorbed), and this despite a few good turns of phrase and a handful of intriguing insights. The main culprit is Ms. Storace's grating personality, which leaves the reader uninvolved in her exploits- this is one of the coldest, most cynical travel books I have ever read. Greece deserves better.
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