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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: Aug 1983
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $18.95
Pages: 512
This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, 'my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just as much of its reality is based on my own shadows, my inventions.' A vibrant and perceptive profile of the kinship between a person and a place.
A Considerable Town
M.F.K. Fisher scans the centuries to reveal the ancient sources that clarify the Marseille of today and the indestructible nature of its people A delightful journey filtered through the senses of a profound writer.