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As They Were

by M F K Fisher

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Publisher Comments:

"Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher is a national treasure. For nearly 50 years she has been writing rare, fine prose about so many things that she is nearly impossible to define....In As They Were she has collected a number of essays — she calls them 'reports' — into an informal autobiography that wanders from Whittier, California, to the south of France." — Newsweek

"She deserves the widest possible audience....The restaurants, hotels and markets she visits are aswarm with people and things, all of which she describes in fine detail, making the reader taste and hear and smell and see as few other writers can....Wherever she is, wherever she goes, she is grand company."

-- Chicago Sun-Times

"A breath of poetry wraps us as she relives for us a lifetime....She is the attentive spectator of her own life as well as its narrator." — Philadelphia Inquirer

"To my mind, As They Were contains some of the best writing M.F.K. Fisher has ever done."

-- James Beard, Boston Globe

"Here are the voluptuous meals recalled by a woman who savored not only the food and wine but every detail of setting and nuance of conversation. Here, too, are meditations on travel by freighter....And here are the vivid evocations of places."

Table of Contents

Prejudice, Hate, and the First World War

Palaces, Etcetera

Young Hunger

I Was Really Very Hungry

Three Swiss Inns

Pacific Village

The Flame and the Ash Thereof

The First Cafe

Two Kitchens in Provence

Wartwort

A Misson Accomplished

A Common Danger

About Looking Alone at a Place: Provence

At Sea

I. The Captain's Dinner, M.S. Feltre

II. Dutch Freighter, M.S. Diemerdyk

III. Announcement from Israfel, M.S. Pluto

The Wind-Chill Factor:  A Problem of Mind and Matter

The Changeover

Gare de Lyon

Nowhere but Here

Product Details

ISBN:
9780394713489
Author:
Fisher, M. F. K.
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Author:
Fisher, M. F. K.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
19830531
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8 x 5.1 x 0.55 in 0.45 lb

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