![]() What she'd say about you behind your back. Only place in the world I've ever taken a nap at nine in the morning.'') She'll tell you lots of charming stories about the locals, but she won't make you wonder - as I sometimes do, reading Peter Mayle. (One of the things she likes about Italy is that it's ''the ![]() Mayes will tell you all about making olive oil and rebuilding an Etruscan wall, but you'll never confuse her with Martha Stewart. So what is Frances Mayes like? On the evidence of ''Under the Tuscan Sun,'' her memoir of buying, renovating and settling into an abandoned villa on the outskirts of Cortona, Italy, she's what the novelist Laurie Colwin used toĬall a domestic sensualist. Mayes has no illusions about the subtext: ''We both know she means what is she like.'' ![]() When the family gets to gossiping about someone and her sister asks, ''What is her house like?'' Ms. The New York Times: Book Review Search Articleįrances Mayes comes from ''a long line of women who open their handbags and take out swatches of upholstery material, colored squares of bathroom tile, seven shades of yellow paint samples and strips of flowered wallpaper.'' ![]()
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