A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Dinner with Persephone mixes affection with detachment as an American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between past and present, East and West. --Atlantic Monthly.
Storace\'s account of a year in Greece combines past and present, legend and fact, in an unusual and delightful whole.
Splendid.
Stylish, funny, and erudite, Dinner with Persephone is travel writing elevated to a fine art--and the best book of its kind since Henry Miller\'s The Colossus of Maroussi.
She discovers a world in which past and present engage in a passionate dialogue.
She sees how the country\'s pride in its past coexists with profound doubts about its place in the modern world.
Whether she is interpreting Hellenic dream books, pop songs, and soap operas, describing breathtakingly beautiful beaches and archaic villages, or braving the crush at a saint\'s tomb, Storace, winner of the Whiting Award, rewards the reader with informed and sensual insights into Greece\'s soul.
Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West.
So begins Patricia Storace\'s astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. --The New York Review of Books I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint. haunting and beautifully written. . .
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Full of insights, marvelously entertaining .
Alongside breathtaking descriptions of beaches and villages, Orthodox rituals and classical myths, Patricia Storace culls through dream books, pop songs, and soap operas to give readers an archaeology of the Greek psyche.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Dinner with Persephone mixes affection with detachment as an American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between past and present, East and West
