{"product_id":"9781619020245","title":"In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany","description":"Now with stunning illustrations and color photographs, this newly expanded edition of \u003cem\u003eIn Maremma\u003c\/em\u003e recounts David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell’s restoration of a dilapidated 1950s farmhouse in southern Tuscany. Beautifully written, witty, and concise, it recounts the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harvest and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the longing for peanut butter. A celebration and exploration of a little-known part of Italy, \u003cem\u003eIn Maremma\u003c\/em\u003e is a fond if sometimes critical corrective to other more rapturous portrayals of Tuscany.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162411352304,"sku":"9781619020245","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619020245_p0.jpg?v=1763855732","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619020245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}