The pacing of the story. The author's honesty, bravery. The life lead and imagined and grown into. The story does span a life and does bridge from childhood to 80s. And, as always, Giles is a witty, perceptive, generous--and sometimes nasty--writer.
It's about baseball--from the early days until now and baseball's association with NYC. The characters and history were fascinating and often hilarious.
Fascinating story about an American woman starting, maintaining, and succeeding with a French cooking school in Paris. Good descriptions of work/working in France and rules and regulations and difficulties of accomplishing anything
In a story that stands above the throngs of travel memoirs, full of gorgeous descriptions of Brittany and at times hysterical encounters with the locals, Mark Greenside describes his initially reluctant travels in this "heartwarming story" (San Francisco Chronicle) where he discovers a second life.
When Mark Greenside-a native New Yorker living in California, political lefty, writer, and lifelong skeptic-is dragged by his girlfriend to a tiny Celtic village in Brittany at the westernmost edge of France in Finistere, or what he describes as "the end of the world," his life begins to change.
