Crete on The Half Shell: A Story About an Island, Good Friends and Food
Toronto: Harper Flamingo Canada, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #003216
Stated first edition. White paper boards with black lettering to spine. 268 p.p. Bumping to spine ends, scuff to lower rear cover near joint. Spine tilted. Dust jacket lightly bumped at extremities, else fine. An engagingly funny voyage of sumptous food and self-discovery told in the fish-out-of-water tradition of Zorba the Greek and A Year in Provence. A Greek immigrant to Canada when he was a boy, Byron Ayanoglu longs to rediscover his roots in a flowery retirement cottage overlooking the aquarmarine Mediterranean.
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