Frankie's Place by Jim Sterba6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() " I loved this, the way the small things (mushroom hunting) and the great things (Tienemann Square) are woven together in this story of two people's "real" (smaller) life and their greater life outside. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:."I loved this, the way the small things (mushroom hunting) and the great things (Tienemann Square) are woven together in this story of two people's "real" (smaller) life and their greater life outside. Their long path to real love has us cheering them on, as well as itching for a visit to idyllic Mount Desert Island. In this Tracy-Hepburn-style romance, the down-to-earth newspaperman charms the sophisticated New Yorker. ![]() ![]() The two couldn’t have had more disparate childhoods, but their intelligence, ambition, and independence propelled them both into writing careers and kept them single, until now. He visits again and gradually falls in love with his host as much as her place. He arrives and discovers a secluded little house on the Maine coast, with evergreens and blackberry bushes all around, views of forested mountains, and a fjord full of seabirds and sailboats. One summer Jim Sterba, veteran war correspondent, accepts an invitation for a weekend visit from a woman he barely knows, author Frances FitzGerald. ![]()
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