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Book SynopsisHelen Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed by Italy's mythic appeal. Unlike Barolini herself, they were not daughters of the great Italian diaspora. Rather, they were drawn to an idea of "Italy" and its gifts-in whose welcome a new self could be created. Or discovered.
Trade Review"Offers Italy as a metaphor for transformation..." -Offbeat Travel "Anyone who has felt Italy's special magnetism will treasure Helen Barolini's portraits of six American women whose lives it changed. In telling their stories, she includes her own experiences working and living in Italy over half a century, all in fascinating detail. " -- -Betty Boyd Caroli author of The Roosevelt Women "... With skill, wit, and bite ... a kind of artful memoir... Recommended." -Choice "...profiles six gifted women who were transformed by Italy's mythic appeal." -Publishers Weekly "An acclaimed Italian-American author, Barolini was determined to search for other American women writers who had the courage to look beyond the boundaries of their ordinary lives." -Feile-Festa "Barolini confidently engages past and present Dickinson scholars in an essay that reflects her wide reading but remains jargon free, personal, and a delight to read." -Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin "With her splendidly interesting and well-written book of essays, Helen Barolini proves fully that Italy was not only a man's dream, but also hers, and the dream of great or liberated women of America who found in her the emotional articulacy or artistic perspicuity that they had longed for." -The Montserrat Review "Helen Barolini masterfully weaves biographies of six American women seduced by Italy." -- -Alice Leccese Powers editor of Italy in Mind
