Santo Stefano in Vairano Santo Stefano in Vairano Santo Stefano in Vairano is a frazione in Crema, Italy. Located north of the city, along the provincial road to Caravaggio, the railroad runs along it, parallel to the Vacchelli canal. Santo Stefano has approximately 800 inhabitants. Its only monument is its church, which is decorated with valuable frescos. Santo Stefano is surrounded by fallow fields and ears of corn as far as the eye can see, interspersed with irrigation canals called "rogge" and rows of trees, typical of the valley." Already a comune in the 9th century, it bore the name Vairano. Although the frazione
A Month in the Country (novel) failed marriage. As a soldier, he witnessed death: destruction and unending mud. But the edges "are" brighter for it. Birkin's idyll in the country is brought into relief by what Birkin has gone through in the past and the disappointments that, it is implied, await him. Carr's great art is to make it clear that joy is inseparable from the pain and oblivion which unmake it. Many of the incidents in the novel are based on real events in Carr's own life, and some of the characters are modelled on his own Methodist family. The jacket illustration shows Tintagel Parish