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eBook details
- Title: Frankie's Place
- Author : Jim Sterba
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,Biographies & Memoirs,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6665 KB
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āA joy to readāa portrait of a place, a way of life, and a marriage by a reporter who turns out to be the worldās last extant romantic.ā āJoan Didion
In this Tracy-Hepburn romance, a sophisticated New York intellectual is charmed by a down-to-earth newspaperman. Frankieās Place is the tale of a summer cottage and the story that unfolds under its roof. Jim Sterba is the down-to-earth newspaperman who charms the New York sophisticate, Frances FitzGerald, after several visits to her writerās retreat on the coast in Maine. Frankieās place is a secluded little house out of harmās way and the clamor of the modern world. Icy plunges into the Somes Sound christen their island mornings; then there is a long period of dutiful writing followed, in the late afternoon, by rigorous mountain walks, forays for wild mushrooms, and sailing. In the evenings Jim and Frankie prepare simple island meals as they talk about everything from the stories or books theyāre working on to the bigger issue of Jimās reunion with his long-lost father. Although they couldnāt have had more disparate childhoodsāJim grew up on a struggling Michigan farm while Frankie lived in a Manhattan town house and an English country estateātheir shared summer rituals have them falling in love before our eyes.
āA highly entertaining tale of love, family, and place . . . It took me places I hadnāt expected to go. I loved it.ā āTom Brokaw