The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (947 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 074324771X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Featuring Stone's recipes, including his own Chicken Retsina and the ultimate moussaka, The Summer of My Greek Tavérna is as much a love story as it is the grand, humorous, and sometimes bittersweet adventures of an American pursuing his dreams in a foreign land, a modern-day innocent abroad.. Seven idyllic years later, they left Patmos for Crete. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. Her warning was well-founded: when back on Patmos, Stone quickly discovered that he was no longer a friend or patron but a competit
"Greek Isle Idyll Goes Wrong but not Sour" according to Diana Faillace Von Behren. Like other books of this genre---rich-enough-upper/middle classer eschews conformist corporate lifestyle for simple labor-intensive technologically sparse villa/farm lifestyle in foreign settin---the pure escapist notion of removing oneself from the rat race of traffic jams, cell ph. Good tzadziki recipe D. P. Birkett It's an account of the American author's life after falling in love with Greece and with a French girl. It centers on half a summer attempting to run a taverna on the island of Patmos and getting swindled. It's light-hearted in tone but covers a few tragic events and many that must . Good story, poor editing KC As a Philhellene hungry for true accounts of expat lives in Greece, and an expat myself living in Greece, I really wanted to like this book. Unfortunately, I struggled many times with its irrelevant details and sometimes boring passages, which caused me to put it down frequently.Unl
But five months quickly turns into love, marriage, two children and several years when he meets Danielle, a 23-year-old French painter. After moving to Rethymnon, Stone teaches English as a second language while Danielle continues to paint until an old Patmian friend, Theologos, phones and invites Stone to become his partner for the summer in his beach taverna, The Beautiful Helen. At 33, Stone, a Broadway stage manager, puts $10,000 of an inheritance in the stock market and leaves New York for what he intends to be a five-month stay in Greece, where he would fulfill his dream of writing a novel. From Publishers Weekly In this feast for all senses, Stone brings readers into the tiny Greek island world of Patmos in a prose that feels as languid as the pace of the Patmian people. Leaping at the opportunity, Stone, and a very reluctant Danielle, pack up their two childr