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306 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
"We walk through a dimly lit town of roseate Moorish walls. A tuneless band plays somewhere. Church bells stun the air. I see a ghost or a barefoot woman walk by smiling, a bucketfull of calla lilies on her head. Through the open door of a church, I glimpse a wooden Jesus in a wine-colored velvet robe. Cobbles and narrow, raised sidewalks force me to notice where I place my feet, imposing a minuet with each passing person."
"From a scenic outlook from above, San Miguel de Allende most resembles Spanish and Italian hill towns, its steep lanes and old houses gathered around churches and squares. Tumbling down its slopes, the town fades off into trees and scrub, a narrow lake that is dam, then a wide plain and mountains beyond where the sun dies each day."