Ikaria: A Love Odyssey on a Greek Island

by Anita Sullivan

A Love Odyssey on a Greek Island. Nonfiction by an author who has traveled to Greece during three different phases of her lifetime and has written about the small island Ikaria, it's inhabitants, it's distinctly remarkable beauty, and it's cultural life, and about how her love affair with the island has deeply affected her own life. Anita Sullivan's first book received the Western States Creative Nonfiction Award. Ikaria was written with the same excellence and should be well received.

132 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2008

About the author

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Anita Sullivan is a piano tuner, poet, editor, publisher, gardener, translator, birdwatcher, and rock art enthusiast. What do these have in common? They are delightful activities, but not so good for earning a living, even doing them all at once! Nonetheless, she owned and operated her own piano tuning business for almost 30 years, tuning and repairing modern pianos as well as historic ones. During that time she published the books listed on this site, earned an MFA in Poetry from Pacific Lutheran University, traveled to Greece six times, and was an occasional commentator on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.”

Reviews

[Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn’t want this book to end. I sipped it like sweet wine. Sullivan, an Oregon writer who is also a professional piano tuner, offers a delicious blend of story, poetry and fact. She has come to the Greek Island to study the language and to get over a lost love. Time slows down as we watch bees making honey in the heather, hear an old man play his violin, join old women working in the garden, and listen to ghost voices in an abandoned monastery. This, my friends, is how you do creative nonfiction. In addition to her prose books, Sullivan has also published poetry and been an NPR commentator. She has also tuned my piano.

[Carol · Rating 1 out of 5]

Silly woman chasing a man/men and hard to believe behavior. Did not finish. The only thing NOT good about Ikaria