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(More customer reviews)This is a great summer read! Or, perhaps even better, if you read it in winter, it will warm you up! The author is best known for his deep explorations into an eastern Massachusetts square mile tract, known as Scratch Flat, but he's wandered away from his known territory in recent books. The Rose Cafe, his latest and, I think, his best, takes us to the sun-drenched island of Corsica in the Mediterranean where Mitchell lived for nine months in the early 1960s. It is, in part, a memoir of a pivotal time in his youth that launched him into his writing career. In his typical lyrical style, Mitchell weaves a magic spell as he introduces us to the breathtakingly beautiful, sensuous, and fragrant land of Corsica, where an odd collection of local types --- dreamy, eccentric, troubled, lovely, even some from Corsica's underworld --- frequent the charming, somewhat isolated cafe/auberge where he worked. In keeping with the subtitle, Love and War in Corsica,there is a lot of love in this book and a lot about the remnants of wars, World War II in particular; and you'll relish reading about delicious Corsican food and how it is prepared. Wild nature and local history serve as a rich metaphorical backdrop for this delightful book.
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