A Year In Provence
by Mayle, Peter
In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Luberon with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhone Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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On Dec 17, 2010, feeney said
Are you shivering in your shoes this December? Well, don't go to southern France, Provence in December expecting to get warm. It is cold there too. Author Peter Mayle describes Provence as being a cold country with lots of sunshine. Lots of mistrals, too: the terrifying winds verging on hurricanes that can leave you housebound for days. Month after month, from January through December, author Peter Mayle, in A YEAR IN PROVENCE, relives the first year that he and his wife spent in an old farmhouse. They coped. They renovated. They hired temperamental workmen. They learned to discriminate among olive oils, wines, breads and the region's many restaurants. Carefully underwritten is A YEAR IN PROVENCE. A masterpiece in its unique way of understated story telling. And it makes you want to experience Provence, as my wife and I did last September. *** "Understated" is not the word I would pick to describe the film/dvd of the same name based on the book and sequels. The book makes Provence magical. The movie clumsily showcases Provence as human but, as humans frequently are, as dull, self-absorbed and egotistical. Do not make my mistake of seeing the sub-par film before reading the superb book. I almost chose to skip A YEAR IN PROVENCE, the book. Thank the good Lord I did not. Enjoy! -OOO-
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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 2nd Impression. 8vo in dark blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 197pp. Inscribed and signed by Peter Mayle on the half title leaf (no other marks or inscriptions) __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy (thin sliver of very slight creasing to bottom edge… Read more about this item Item Price
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Penguin Adult. Good. 197mm / 129mm. Paperback. 2000. 210 pages. Cover worn<br>Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour an d discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bes tselling, much-loved account of 'A Year In Provence'. Peter May le and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Pan. Good. 130 x 197mm. Paperback. 1989. 216 pages. Cover creased.<br>A personal description of Provencal life as seen through the eyes of the author and his wife when the y move into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains between Avignon and Aix. The bestselling work of non-fiction in paperback of 1991 in… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Fourth Printing. Title page and chapter headings illustrated by drawings of Judith Clancy. In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200 year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Luberon with his wife and two large… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1991. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis?… Read more about this item Item Price
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