An Affair of the Heart, An by Dilys Powell
Dilys Powell's love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun-baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband the archaeologist Humfry Payne on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who labored on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time.Despite personal tragedy, the occupation of Greece and civil war, Powell's affair of the heart continued. She returned time and again through the '40s and '50s, and with each visit there was a reconciliation with her idyllic memories of the country. Both with Humfry and without, she explored remote mountains in the company of shepherds, isolated stretches of coast and island with local fishermen and olive-dotted hillsides with the subsistence farmers who worked them. Out of this she has fashioned a gem of a travel book.
Elizabeth Dilys Powell, CBE (20 July 1901 3 June 1995) was an English journalist who wrote for the Sunday Times for over fifty years. Powell was best known as a film critic, noted for her receptiveness to cultural change in the cinema, and she coined many classic phrases about films and actors. She was also one of the founder members of the Independent Television Authority (ITA), which launched commercial TV in the UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780601564 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780601565 |
| Title | An Affair of the Heart, An |
| Author | Dilys Powell |
| Series | Eland Classics Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-10-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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