The Reluctant Tuscan

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Oh, no. I had only been here a few hours, and Tuscany was already beginning to work its magic. Its insidious charm and inexhaustible natural beauty were seducing me, and if I wasn't careful, I was going to find myself feeling happy for absolutely no reason
After years of working on a string of successful sitcoms, Phil Doran suddenly found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now happening to him. And it was freaking him out. He came home every night angry, burned out, and exhausted. But after twenty-five years of losing her husband to Hollywood, Doran's wife decided it was finally time for a change—so on one of her many solo trips to Italy she surprised him by purchasing a broken-down three-hundred-year-old farmhouse for them to restore. The Reluctant Tuscan is the author's transition from a successful but overworked writer-producer in Hollywood to a man rediscovering himself and his wife... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Oh, no. I had only been here a few hours, and Tuscany was already beginning to work its magic. Its insidious charm and inexhaustible natural beauty were seducing me, and if I wasn't careful, I was going to find myself feeling happy for absolutely no reason
After years of working on a string of successful sitcoms, Phil Doran suddenly found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now happening to him. And it was freaking him out. He came home every night angry, burned out, and exhausted. But after twenty-five years of losing her husband to Hollywood, Doran's wife decided it was finally time for a change—so on one of her many solo trips to Italy she surprised him by purchasing a broken-down three-hundred-year-old farmhouse for them to restore. The Reluctant Tuscan is the author's transition from a successful but overworked writer-producer in Hollywood to a man rediscovering himself and his wife while in Italy, finding happiness in the last place he expected to.
Doran finds himself navigating through the maddening labyrinth of Italian bureaucracy just to get a road paved to their house; dealing with the foibles of their neighbors and the tangled drama of the family who sold them the home; coming to accept that the Italians live with a million laws and no rules; and learning that everything closes down for four hours in the middle of the day for lunch, wine-drinking, and lovemaking. This is not another tale of a person who dreams of leaving it all behind for a life in Italy, but Doran's gradual seduction by the inexhaustible beauty and tactile pleasures of Tuscany as he discovers the importance of getting in touch with his inner Italian. Vissza