Romancing Spain
LaMar Herrin
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Does a man fall in love with a country first or the woman he finds there? And which love is finally the greatest? In this elegant account of his falling for the Spanish woman he married 30 years ago, Lamar Herrin opens his heart, his natural skepticism, and an American's awe of history to a complex nation that is both rich in tradition and astoundingly foreign. Portraying himself as a Quixote in love with Romance, Herrin allows us to watch as he struggles to win the woman who will finally open her arms to him in a world where the Church and Bureaucracy are unwilling to. By turns comic and moving -- and always lyrical -- there are beauty and good heart enough in this eloquent book for travelers and lovers alike.
Product Details
Price
$23.95
$22.27
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Publish Date
July 01, 2006
Pages
272
Dimensions
6.7 X 9.2 X 1.19 inches | 1.26 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781932961225
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About the Author
Lamar Herrin, professor emeritus at Cornell University, is the author of seven novels, including The Lies Boys Tell, House of the Deaf, Fractures, and a memoir , Romancing Spain. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Epoch, and Paris Review, which awarded him its Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. He is also the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and winner of the Associated Writing Program's Award for the Novel.
Reviews
"[An] extraordinary love story...Herrin has plotted this book like a suspenseful novel. It succeeds as a unique love story and as an evocation of Spain: its sweeping plateaus and fragrant orange orchards, its great regional foods and attentive formalities."--The Louisville Courier-Journal
