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Title: Deja vu, all over again
Review: It's tough to find much redeeming in another one of these "expat moves to crazy but poetic italy" books.Hawes is a skilled writer and tale teller but you'd really have to be a fan of the genre to get through almost 400 pages of quirky anedotes by an author who refers to her Italian neighbors as "peasants." Even her considerable wit makes for an "been, there done that" reaction--yet again the Anglo-American expat who never manages to get inside the culture...
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