Simon & Schuster - Too Much Tuscan Sun by Dario Castagno

Closed, opens Wed 11amIndependent shop in GreenwoodDirections

Available from Yoshi when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping against a brick wall of tradition. Before this subgenre exhausts itself, it's only fair that we hear the other side of the story-that of a native Tuscan and of dozens of Americans who have stormed thr