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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030907
Author:Reviewed by Louis Bayard

LOVE IN IDLENESS

By Amanda Craig

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 340 pp. $23.95

If Tuscany ceased to exist, would Britons ever have sex again? The question was first posed (implicitly) by E.M. Forster in A Room with a View and Where Angels Fear to Tread, taken up again by Elizabeth von Arnim in The Enchanted April and raised to a new level of urgency by the Merchant-Ivory school of trembling corsets. All it takes, apparently, is some unfiltered sunshine and a whiff of olives to set pasty English bodies writhing like love-starved calamari. Indeed, Tuscany porn has become so common of late (Under the ...

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