An Italian Affair
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When Laura Fraser’s spouse leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to place some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized like of life. What they both assume will be a casual trip tryst turns into a passionate, transatlantic like affair, as they rendezvous in London, Marrakech, Milan, the Aeolian Islands, and San Francisco. Each encounter is a delirious interest into place (sumptuous food and wine, dazzling scenery, lush gardens, and vibrant streetscapes) and into each additional. And with each experience, Laura brings home not only a lasting sense of pleasure, but a more fully recovered sense of her emotional and sexual self. Written with an observant eye, an open mind, and a delightful sense of humor, An Italian Affair has the irresistible honesty of a tale told from and about the heart.
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I finished reading this book on Saturday night, and I’ve been sad ever since. This book was a joy to read from start to end.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I read another book by Ms. Fraser which was an brilliant journalistic investigation of the weight loss industry. And I was very intrigued to see that she has written a novel, a memoir.
I loved this book! Her use of the second person narrative was so refreshing and maintains the feeling that the book was written for her closest friends. Her descriptions of each locale, while inspired and exotic, were also believeable and compelling. It made me want to stock my kitchen with fresh basil, tomatoes and spicy olives, just in case friends drop by who really have time for a chat. Or better yet, to get my plane tickets in order!
The first visit, in Florence, I have such an affinity with, because I took a trip there with the man who would later become my spouse. The book made me remember again the incredible experience of being with a name who likes the exploration of a gorgeous time and place as much as you do, and on the same “level” you do. I reflect folks dream for such and experience with a lover, and never get it. Some not even with their spouses. I imagine that a person finishing book and seeing the “this is a right tale” on the last page just wouldn’t judge it, but then reflect, “well could be, I hope so at least.”
I admire her because she has related a painful time in her life while making a gorgeous tale. Readers may sense that this healing process is not only right to the leader, but could be right for anyone who has had to heal from a broken heart.
Of course, not everyone choses to heal in the places she did! This is what I reflect makes it not just a decent book about relationship-recovery, but a book we remember. Others want to heal in places like Morocco, with a wonderful person. But she really leapt at the opportunity, and had the ability and talent to make it a tale of tales. How many of us have the courage to take persons kind of chances?
She could have written this like a basic travelogue. A book like this could have been banal, or it could have been overly sexual or a trite “bodice ripper”. It could have been too jaded and bitter, it could have been self-absorbed. But happily it is none of these things. This book, to me, is about what can take place when you open yourself to new experiences. Readers who themselves have been rewarded by taking chances, as well as persons to worried to, will take something valuable out of this book. We might like to step “outside of the box” and evolve and not just grow ancient. Or we can read authors like Ms. Fraser, who make us feel we are there with her while she does the stepping out.
I feel grateful Laura Fraser chose to share her versatile writing talent with the rest of the reading world. I finished the book feeling pleased and hopeful.
I hope she writes another book soon.
7-8-01
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Truly a Sad tale writen by a woman whose spouse left her for his right like, his high school sweet heart. (Judged by this book, he did the right thing.) Laura Fraser’s “Italian Affair” is nothing special, and very uninteresting. Now Fraser’s book rests in my Trash can on its way to the city dump. It is a dull tale of a middle age woman who travel thorugh Italy alone. We all have similar experiences in Italy, but not all of us will be so available nor insensitive enough to write about these dull encounters. I know I will not read anything written by Laura Fraser ever again in the future. At least I gained this knowledge.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Amazon.com will probably not jump up and down with joy over this review, but I just tell it as I read it! What a relief the book is relatively fleeting because the further I read, the more hopelessly “ushy-gushy, ho-hum” it became. The book revolves around Fraser’s two-year affair with a French university professor whom she meets on the Italian island of Ischia. Basically, Fraser’s spouse leaves her after a year of marriage (with her mental attitude and stability, I really don’t blame the guy) and she is now in search of her own identity – her right sexual and emotional self…judge me, it takes her a long time to find it! Let’s get real here, the tale is small more than a two-year tryst with a married man, in exotic places of the world – Milan, Lago, Maggiore, London, Aeolian Islands, Marrakech, San Francisco. Just what does it take to satisfy this woman – additional than, obviously, a lot! If she chooses to have an affair, that is her business, but three quarters of the people who walk in her shoes do not write a book about it!
What about the plot, you question? What plot? The couple spend their days of glory basking in the sun, strolling hand-in-hand down silent streets, dining on fine cuisine and sipping succulent wine along the way. Somehow it is immensely hard for the average reader to tell to, or feel compassion for, this poor abandoned woman who is “trying to find her right self” while dining on Epicurean cuisine and tossing back lavish wine in luxurious places around the world! Who the heck cares about her sordid small affair! I did give the book one star, just to be nice, and for at least having the creativity to go the “action” around to exotic locations. In reality, the basis of the tale is not much different from what goes on somewhere around the world, for many “married-but-not-to-each-additional” couples, twenty-four hours a day, day-in and day-out, but unless they are among the elite….usually in less exotic locations.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is such a wonderful book! It took a few pages to lure me into the second person, but once I was there, I could not place the book down! Thanks for sharing your tale Laura!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5