traveller accidental encounters astonishing

books:

3 reviews
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Mariner Books, 1997

An Exhilarating Collection
This is one of the finest collections of essays in contemporary American letters. It has guts and razzle-dazzle, honesty and passion. I love the risky leaps Grizzuti Harrison takes.

Italian Days

14 reviews
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998

You Can't Go Home Again
The first two-thirds of this book is a superb travel guide to Milan, Venice, Rome, and Campania. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is very conversant with the best travel literature of the past (and thoughtfully provides us a useful bibliography) and -- more rare by far -- has a great deal to add as an Italian-American confronting the land of her birth. After her chapter on Naples and Campania, the book ...

A Traveller in Italy

4 reviews
H.v. Morton, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Da Capo Press, 2002

In the Steps of H.V. Morton
In Italy, I have often cast a pitying eye on the uninspired faces of people in large tour groups. You have, no doubt, seen them yourself, as they mindlessly follow a leader who is holding some ridiculous object aloft on a stick and frequently supplying dubious anecdotal information selected to entertain rather than enlighten. Anyone in such a group with an earnest zeal to know more about the ...

Marcia Lippman Sacred Encounters: East and West

1 review
Bell Hooks, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, ...

Edition Stemmle, 2000

A luminous movie
This work is like encountering a strange film which, after a while seems not to be a film at all but an experience you are having, a kind of a journey that you don't remember setting out on. It takes you through England, Bali, Cambodia, Italy, through time, through light. In the end, as with all good journeys, you are someplace else and you are a little different, though in ways you can't ...

Islands of Italy

1 review
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Houghton Mifflin, 1991

One of my favorite books
I found this book quite by accident while doing research for an upcoming trip to Italy. This was only one of many books I looked at and I didn't expect it to be anything more than a resource. Instead, it turned out to be one of the most beautiful and satisfying books I've ever read. I really cannot say enough in praise of Barbara G. Harrison's writing. She tells anecdotes, expresses odd ...

An Accidental Autobiography

3 reviews
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Houghton, Mifflin, 1996

An Exhilarating Collection
This is one of the finest collections of essays in contemporary American letters. It has guts and razzle-dazzle, honesty and passion. I love the risky leaps Grizzuti Harrison takes.

ASTONISHING WORLD CL

1 review
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Houghton Mifflin, 1992

an astonishing book
I loved this book. I have loved all of her books. I started by reading "An Accidental Autobiography" I was hooked. I would read her writing every day if I could. This book takes you on a journey through her eyes. Everything she looks at is written about beautifully, like a poem. Strange, unusual circumstances are often written about, This woman knows how to amaze readers. She is so ...

Visions of Glory

3 reviews
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Hale, 1980

Evocative, Compelling, Familiar
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison writes of her life as Jehovah's Witness during the 1950's. One would hope in almost 50 years that the beliefs, prejudices, and controlling aspects of the religion would have changed during this time. As a former Jehovah's Witness who was involved in the sect up until 1995 I can attest that this is not the case. Grizzuti Harrison writes in such a way as to provide a ...