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Romancing Spain
Romancing Spain
Romancing Spain
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Romancing Spain

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Does a man fall in love with a country first or the woman he finds there?

And which love is finally the greatest?

In this elegant account of his falling for the Spanish woman he married 30 years ago, Lamar Herrin opens his heart, his natural skepticism, and an American’s awe of history to a complex nation that is both rich in tradition and astoundingly foreign.

Portraying himself as a Quixote in love with Romance, Herrin allows us to watch as he struggles to win the woman who will finally open her arms to him in a world where the Church and Bureaucracy are unwilling to.

By turns comic and moving and always lyrical there are beauty and good heart enough in this eloquent book for travelers and lovers alike.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 1, 2006
ISBN9781609530129
Romancing Spain
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Lamar Herrin

LAMAR HERRIN's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Epoch, and The Paris Review, which awarded him its Aga Kahn fiction prize. He is author of the novel Fractures. He is professor emeritus of creative writing and contemporary literature at Cornell University and has taught many bestselling authors such as Philip Gourevitch, Philipp Meyer, and Melissa Bank. Together with his wife, Amparo, he splits his time between Ithaca, New York and Valencia, Spain.

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