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(Embedded image Destined to become a cult novel for all lovers of
things Italian, The Writing Women's Lives
moved to file: Etruscan invites the reader to explore eerie
Etruscan ruins through Katherine's Wish
the eyes of American photographer, Harriet
Sacket,who comes to Italy A new novel about the
Linda Lappin in 1922 to photograph Etruscan tombs
lives of Katherine
for the Theosophical Society. In a rustic village
in Tuscia,she meets Mansfield and her
From The Etruscan... Federigo del Re, ersatz count of Vitorchiano,who
leads her into a circle
haunted world of Etruscan legends. The heart of
the novel is a Missing Person in
The road to the surreal diary recounting Harriet's brief, intense
affair with the Montparnasse: The Case
tombs Count. But who is this man: an unscrupulous
impostor, a phantom of of Jeanne Hebuterne
skirted a field of Harriet's imagination, or is he who he claims to
be, an avatar of an Essay on the life of
shriveled ancient race?
the artist, Jeanne
sunflowers, The action alternates between the rock tombs of
rural Italy and the Hebuterne, wife of
an army of nodding British enclave of sophisticated travelers in
Florence.Readers will Modigliani
heads on stalks, delight in the gothic atmosphere tinged with
modernism. Inspired by The Ghosts of
bowed and blackened, Jungian archetypes,the novel pays subtle homage to
Henry James, Fontainebleau
awaiting harvest. Vernon Lee,and D.H. Lawrence, travelers to Italy
in the twenties and An essay about
There were no houses explorers of the darker corners of the human
psyche. Katherine Mansfield

out this way,only The Spirit of Etruscan Places.
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punctuated
the empty sky
where hungry crows

Grazing in the quiet
meadows were flocks
of dirty sheep.
Their bells tinkled
as they turned their

heads to stare
at me. A solitary
traveler on the
road, an alien by
local standards,a
tallish woman,
no longer young,
wearing a pair of
moleskin trousers
and rubber boots,
a rucksack swinging
on my shoulders.
The black felt
hat pulled low over

my forehead
concealed
by cropped blonde
hair.
To those placid
sheep,
I probably looked
like
a walking scarecrow.
In the distance,
beyond the brown
hills,
I could just see the
tip of a square
tower
where the owner of
all

this land lived --
a reclusive count
who
also owned the
farmhouse
I rented nearby, on
the outskirts of the

village of
Vitorchiano.
The tombs I was
going
to visit that day
were part of the
tower
estate, and I had
been
told that I should
apply
there to request
official
permission to
photograph
them and arrange for

a guide. I had come
to
this remote corner
of
Italy to research
Etruscan sites....

Read more about

Harriet Sackett's
Etruscan adventures
on
www.TheEtruscan.com
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Reviews of The
Etruscan

"An extraordinary
feat"
Susan Tiberghien,
Jungian lecturer
author of Looking
for Gold

"A real page-turner"
Kathryn Lang, senior
editor
Southern Methodist
University Press

"A writer to watch"
David Applefield,
editor of FRANK

"A powerful first
novel"
Thomas E. Kennedy
author of The
Copenhagen Quartet

"... gothic in the
grand
style--darkly
mysterious,
psychologically
acute, emotionally
subtle"
Thomas Wilhelmus
fiction columnist
for the Hudson
Review