Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

A wonderful insight of a land seldom seen by tourists:

I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of this book. The chapters read like short stories about the small towns and the people of Sicily that few tourists ever see. While thousands have captured photographs of the smoke pluming from Mt. Etna, Maggio walks in the fields and talks to the people who live in the shadow of this active volcano. She even shares a cup of coffee with the engineer of the little train that circles the mountain and relates the stories he tells. This is not a book about someone who... more info

A Gem of a Book on Sicily its People!:

THE STONE BOUDOIR is a collection of stories about author Theresa Maggio's experience in the unnoticed mountain towns of Sicily. It's about the people she meets, their customs, stories and the island's rich and fascinating history (involving the Greeks, Romans, Arabs and the Normans).

At the start of the 20th century, Maggio's grandparents immigrated to America from Santa Margherita Belice, a small Sicilian mountain town. In 1973, Maggio makes her way to Sicily for her first visit. She finds the island so... more info

A Little Overly Sentimental but Still Very Good:

I'm going to be taking a long holiday through all of Sicily this summer, so I've been reading a lot of books about it. I found Theresa Maggio's THE STONE BOUDOIR to be a far superior book to Francine Prose's SICILIAN ODYSSEY, though THE STONE BOUDOIR is a bit sentimental and Maggio does have a tendency to "gush." For example, she writes of buildings made of "creamy yellow sandstone, or black lava, or dense blue stones, or pink clay rocks." I didn't mind this sentimentality, though. In fact, I rather enjoyed... more info

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