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Sour, sharp women of the mountains
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Lucania, a dry mountainous region above the arch of Italy's foot,
is not the stuff of romantic travel literature, a point Ann
Cornelisen makes clear in introducing the area to readers of her
Women of the Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern
Italy (Penguin, $9.95).
"It is a bare, sepia world," she writes, "a cruel world of
jagged parched hills, dry river beds and distant villages where
clumps of low houses cling together on the edges of outbanks."
Cornelis...
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