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Article: LOVING THAT TUSCAN SUN.(author Frances Mayes)
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- WWD
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- August 29, 2003
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CORTONA, Italy -- Who says love isn't forever? At least one love affair seems to be everlasting, that of Americans for Tuscany.
Case in point: the ongoing success of the book, "Under The Tuscan Sun," by Frances Mayes and the release next month of the movie based on it, which will star Oscar nominee Diane Lane. The book also inspired a concert for cello and string orchestra by the Russian cellist and composer, Nina Kotova, and a Tuscan Sun Festival held earlier this month in Cortona, an hour's drive from Florence.
"This book keeps leading me in different directions -- it has taken on a life of its own," said Mayes, who's the first to marvel at its ...