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- News from the Village: Aegean Friends
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
In his twenties, an American manual laborer and poet found himself living with his beautiful wife in a village in southern Greece. Their first encounter with that country would prove an unrecoverable dream of intimate magic, but through decades of steadfast affection, poet David Mason grew to a deeper understanding of what it means to be a citizen of one's own country and a citizen of the world. News from the Village is a lyrical memoir of Aegean friends, including such figures as Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Chatwin, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke and Patrick Leigh Fermor, each of whom comes fully alive, along with a brilliant cast of lesser-known characters. Fearing he has lost Greece and everything it has meant in his life, Mason goes back again and again to the country he knew as a young man. He encounters Turkey and Greece together in the shadow of 9-11, follows the lives of his friends, whose trials sometimes surpass his own. Ultimately, Mason's marvelous book is about what we can hold and what slips away, what sustains us all through our griefs and disappointments. This book is richly evocative and rare.
Table of Contents
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- I. The Lotos-Eaters
- pp. 11-34
- II. Greek Fever
- pp. 35-58
- III. Getting to Know Michali
- pp. 59-86
- IV. Chatwin’s Ashes
- pp. 87-108
- V. Learning By Default
- pp. 109-130
- VI. Holding to Life
- pp. 131-144
- VII. The End of Immortality
- pp. 145-166
- VIII. Another Kind of Greece
- pp. 167-182
- IX. In Katerina’s Kitchen
- pp. 183-214
- X. Back in the Village
- pp. 215-236
- XI. The Other Side
- pp. 237-254
- XII. The Muezzin and the Dove
- pp. 255-276
- XIII. Wine Among Friends
- pp. 277-302
- Postscript
- pp. 303-308
- About the Author
- pp. 309-312
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597091848
Related ISBN(s)
9781597094719
MARC Record
OCLC
835771148
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No