PLAYING AWAY Roman Holidays and Other

From Simon & Schuster, Playing Away is Michael Mewshaw's experience on Roman holidays as well as other Mediterranean encounters.

Playing Away includes a wide variety of chapters, including ones on traveling by train, enjoying summertime and alfresco living, the unique aspects of the different Mediterranean cities, and much more about exploring this magic region.

Michael Mewshaw is an author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books. He frequently works as a travel writer, investigative reporter, book reviewer, and tennis reporter. He was a professor of creative writing at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Introduction	p. xiii
Italy, 1977	p. 1
Is Anybody Home?	p. 15
El Oued	p. 20
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia	p. 27
From Equinox to Solstice and Beyond	p. 31
Getting Plugged In	p. 36
A Clean Well-Lighted Place ... Sort Of	p. 43
Campari and Complexity at Center Court	p. 50
Summertime, and the Living's Al Fresco	p. 55
The Staying Power and the Glory	p. 60
Symbols of Rome	p. 73
The Mayor of Rome	p. 78
Cat City	p. 84
Moving? Don't Expect a New Lease on Life	p. 90
James Jones, An Elegy	p. 97
Off the Books, Between the Lines	p. 101
Il Sorpasso	p. 108
Pia Zadora's Never Around When You Need Her	p. 115
Tuscany, Rooms, and Views	p. 122
Cash, Don't Leave Home Without It	p. 129
Winter on the Riviera	p. 136
Gore Vidal: Puritan Moralist	p. 142
The Junk-Food Wars	p. 158
Monte Carlo	p. 164
Hot Tickets	p. 185
Rome, Closed City	p. 192
Marrakech	p. 199
Reflecting on Home and the Illusion of Perpetual Summer	p. 209
Far from Center Court	p. 215
A Stranger's House	p. 222
Expatriate	p. 229
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PLAYING AWAY Roman Holidays and Other Mediterranean Encounters

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