The Rose Cafe
Love and War in Corsica
$27.36
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2008
Summary
In 1962, while he was a student in Paris, John Hanson Mitchell spent a luminous six months on the Mediterranean island of Corsica at the Rose Cafe, in Ile Rousse. Twenty-two, Mitchell spent his idyll hours there observing the lives of the people who frequented the place. These included a group of local card players (some with possible underworld connections) who visited each night, as well as colorful continental types and a younger crowd at play - all spellbound by the lush charms of the island.In the polished prose that has made his other books so distinctive and well-loved, Mitchell captures the rhythms and intrigues of a life lived elsewhere, bringing us an insider’s portrait of the light and dark shadows that loomed over postwar Corsica. He reveals in the process the island’s magic at work on his own life - how it cultivated the bloom of his writing talent and shaped his sense of place.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582434452 |
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| ISBN-10: | 158243445X |
| Author: | John Hanson Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
“Mitchell is a master of sensual detail. His Corsican idyll, youth’s paradise lost, enchants, still vivid and affecting some 40 summers gone.”
“One of our finest guides … He shows us how we can cease our wanderings and come to know a place.”
“The juxtaposition of the beautiful island’s vitality … [is] captured well in Mitchell’s precise and evocative prose.”
John Hanson Mitchell
John Hanson Mitchell’s work is focused on a square mile tract of land known as Scratch Flat, located about thirty-five miles north-west of Boston. Mitchell has used this anomalous landscape of rolling hills, farms, forests and encroaching suburbs to explore his continuing interest in natural and human history and the whole question of place in human cultures, both native and European. Best known of this series of books is the first, Ceremonial Time- Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. The latest book in the group is An Eden of Sorts- The Natural History of My Feral Garden. All of these books have been collected together in a series known as The Scratch Flat Chronicles.
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