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- catalog abstract ""I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins this astonishing memoir of fantastical peregrinations throughout Greece. Dinner with Persephone is an indelible masterwork about a place and a people whose culture has influenced us all. With great smartness of style, winning detail, and infectious humor, acclaimed poet and essayist Patricia Storace magically conjures up noisy, anarchic cities and quiet, idyllic towns and harbors, where the. Unseen worlds of the past - the Roman, the Byzantine, the Ottoman - continue to make their presence felt. She evokes with sympathy and irony the social mores and religious customs and rites of a highly varied and paradoxical people who contentiously affirm their legacy as Greeks but suffer at the same time from profound xenomania - a people fascinated by the dual nature of all things: the transsexual, the biracial, the mother/whore.".
- catalog contributor b9817022.
- catalog coverage "Greece Description and travel.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins this astonishing memoir of fantastical peregrinations throughout Greece. Dinner with Persephone is an indelible masterwork about a place and a people whose culture has influenced us all. With great smartness of style, winning detail, and infectious humor, acclaimed poet and essayist Patricia Storace magically conjures up noisy, anarchic cities and quiet, idyllic towns and harbors, where the.".
- catalog description "Unseen worlds of the past - the Roman, the Byzantine, the Ottoman - continue to make their presence felt. She evokes with sympathy and irony the social mores and religious customs and rites of a highly varied and paradoxical people who contentiously affirm their legacy as Greeks but suffer at the same time from profound xenomania - a people fascinated by the dual nature of all things: the transsexual, the biracial, the mother/whore.".
- catalog extent "xii, 398 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Dinner with Persephone.".
- catalog identifier "0679421343 (HC)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dinner with Persephone.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "Dinner with Persephone.".
- catalog spatial "Greece Description and travel.".
- catalog subject "949.5 20".
- catalog subject "DF728 .S76 1996".
- catalog subject "Storace, Patricia Journeys Greece.".
- catalog subject "Storace, Patricia Travel Greece.".
- catalog title "Dinner with Persephone / Patricia Storace.".
- catalog type "text".