Full name: As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey

Author: Alan Epstein Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060933951 006093395X

A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to live in Rome. In As the Romans Do, he celebrates the spirit of this stylish, dramatic, ancient city that formed the hub of a far-flung empire and introduced the Mediterranean culture to the rest of the world. He also reveals today's Roman men and women in all their appealing contradictions: their gregarious caffe culture; inborn artistic flair; passionate appreciation of good food; instinctive mistrust of technology; showy sex appeal; ingrained charm and expressiveness; surprisingly unusual attitudes toward marriage and religion; and much, much more. Similar books: Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Pasquale's Nose by Michael Rips Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes An Italian Education by Tim Parks Stolen Figs by Mark Rotella Journey to the South by Annie Hawes A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby Italian Neighbours by Tim Parks Too Much Tuscan Sun by Dario Castagno Vanilla Beans & Brodo by Isabella Dusi A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes In Tuscany by Frances Mayes Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum