The Greek House: The Story of a Painter'S Love Affair With the Island of Sifnos [Audiobook] download free by Christian Brechneff
- Listen audiobook: The Greek House: The Story of a Painter'S Love Affair With the Island of Sifnos
- Author: Christian Brechneff
- Release date: 2015/2/11
- Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780374535261
- Rating: 7.36 of 10
- Votes: 627
- Review by: Drake Esparza
- Review rating: 7.81 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/20
- Duration: 3H53M16S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, Apple Lossless, MPEG4, Musepack, FLAC, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless (compression RAR, TAR.BZ, TBZ, ZIP, ARC, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M39S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: When Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work. There, this Swiss child of Russian emigres, adrift and confused about his sexuality, found something extraordinary. In Sifnos, he found a muse, a subject he was to paint for years, and a sanctuary. In The Greek House, Brechneff tells a funny, touching narrative about his relationship to Sifnos, writing with warmth about its unforgettable residents and the house he bought in a hilltop farm village. This is the story of how he fell in love with Sifnos, and how it became a haven from the complexities of his life in Western Europe and New York. It is the story of his village and of the island during the thirty-odd years he owned the house-from a time when there were barely any roads to the arrival of the modern world with its tourists and high-speed boats and the euro. And it is the story of the end of the love affair-how the island changed and he changed, how he discovered he had outgrown Sifnos, or couldn't grow there anymore.The Greek House is a celebration of place and an honest narrative of self-discovery. In its pages, a naive and inexperienced young man comes into his own. Weaving himself into the life of the island, painting it year after year, he finds a place he can call home.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Memoirs, Biography: Arts & Entertainment, Travel Writing, Guidebooks
- Download servers: 4Shared, Uploaded, Dropbox, Teamplace, FileServe. Compressed in RAR, TAR.BZ, TBZ, ZIP, ARC, TAR.XZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.82 USD
- Dimensions: 146x203x26mm
- Weight: 317.51g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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