Where the Cypress Rises
Paperback, 296 pages
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History, tradition, art and festivals and friendship are the themes that Australian artist Virginia Ryan effortlessly interweaves throughout her intriguing personal memoir. First published in 2000, âWhere the Cypress Risesâ tells the story of her familyâs growing affection for a hill town in central Italy.
âIt was midsummer. The thick, cloying blanket of afternoon heat spread itself drowsily
across the Umbrian landscape, leaving the earth scorched under a sun-bleached sky. On
far-off mountaintops storms were brewing and distant thunder seemed to rise from a sunstruck
earth, an incantation from other times.
We drove on and on in a trance towards the hill town of Trevi, only casting aside...More >
âIt was midsummer. The thick, cloying blanket of afternoon heat spread itself drowsily
across the Umbrian landscape, leaving the earth scorched under a sun-bleached sky. On
far-off mountaintops storms were brewing and distant thunder seemed to rise from a sunstruck
earth, an incantation from other times.
We drove on and on in a trance towards the hill town of Trevi, only casting aside...More >
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