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01537aam a2200301Ia 4500 001 51B50FF2337811EAAB6AAA0C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200110010330 008 090402r20101998nyua 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0920256627 020 $a 9780920256626 035 $a (OCoLC)317919656 040 $a BTCTA $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d LD4 $d HTM $d BDX $d SILO 050 4 $a DG734.23 $b .M38 2010 082 04 $a 914.5504929 $2 22 100 1 $a MateÌ, Ferenc, $d 1945- 245 14 $a The hills of Tuscany : $b a new life in an old land / $c Ferenc MaÌteÌ. 250 $a 1st pbk. ed. 260 $a New York : $b Albatross Publishing House : $c 2010. 300 $a 248 p. : $b ill. ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a The Mates arrived in Tuscany in the late 1980s knowing no Italian and with only four weeks to search for the country house of their dreams. On their last night there, after having been chased by wild boars and befriended by a country realtor who also sells pigs and coffins, they finally concluded the deal on the hood of a rusting tractor with the lawyer speaking Italian and them responding in French, English, and Hungarian, in a Tower of Babel version of "Who's on First?" 651 0 $a Tuscany (Italy) $x Description and travel. 651 0 $a Tuscany (Italy) $x Social life and customs. 600 10 $a MateÌ, Ferenc, $d 1945- $x Homes and haunts $z Tuscany. $z Tuscany. 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204063416.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110045349.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=51B50FF2337811EAAB6AAA0C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search