PLAYING AWAY: Roman Holidays and Other Mediterranean Encounters

by Michael Mewshaw

Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Playing Away is Michael Mewshaw's experience on Roman holidays as well as other Mediterranean encounters.

Playing Away includes a wide variety of chapters, including ones on traveling by train, enjoying summertime and alfresco living, the unique aspects of the different Mediterranean cities, and much more about exploring this magic region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743213073
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	10/06/2000
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael Mewshaw is an author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books. He frequently works as a travel writer, investigative reporter, book reviewer, and tennis reporter. He was a professor of creative writing at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xiii
	Italy, 1977	1
	Is Anybody Home?	15
	El Oued	20
	The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia	27
	From Equinox to Solstice and Beyond	31
	Getting Plugged In	36
	A Clean Well-Lighted Place ... Sort Of	43
	Campari and Complexity at Center Court	50
	Summertime, and the Living's Al Fresco	55
	The Staying Power and the Glory	60
	Symbols of Rome	73
	The Mayor of Rome	78
	Cat City	84
	Moving? Don't Expect a New Lease on Life	90
	James Jones, An Elegy	97
	Off the Books, Between the Lines	101
	Il Sorpasso	108
	Pia Zadora's Never Around When You Need Her	115
	Tuscany, Rooms, and Views	122
	Cash, Don't Leave Home Without It	129
	Winter on the Riviera	136
	Gore Vidal: Puritan Moralist	142
	The Junk-Food Wars	158
	Monte Carlo	164
	Hot Tickets	185
	Rome, Closed City	192
	Marrakech	199
	Reflecting on Home and the Illusion of Perpetual Summer	209
	Far from Center Court	215
	A Stranger's House	222
	Expatriate	229