About the Book: Florence: A Delicate Case (Writer and the City)
The third in the critically acclaimed Writer and the City Series - in which
some of the worlds finest novelists reveal the secrets of the cities they know
best - Florence is a lively account of expatriate life in the city of the lily.
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the
turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty
thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled
here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating - and so
repellent