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Provence A-Z: A Francophile's Essential Handbook
Written by Peter Mayle
Narrated by John Lee
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.
Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or downright fun.
He writes about subjects as diverse as architecture, expatriates, scorpions, the Provençal character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the origins of "La Marseillaise," wild boars and Frenchwinds. And, of course, he writes about food and drink.
Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle's ever-growing audience and these unabridged selections are the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.
Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or downright fun.
He writes about subjects as diverse as architecture, expatriates, scorpions, the Provençal character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the origins of "La Marseillaise," wild boars and Frenchwinds. And, of course, he writes about food and drink.
Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle's ever-growing audience and these unabridged selections are the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.
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Peter Mayle
Peter Mayle (1939-2018) spent fifteen years in the advertising business before escaping in 1975 to write books, including his bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence. His work has been translated into seventeen languages and he has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This has been on my nightstand, off and on, since sometime in Autumn of 2010, I think. Probably not the best place to start reading Mayle, though (what can I say? I found it on the discount rack.) I've read part of A Year in Provence, which, obviously, flows better than this little alphabet of essays – but the little alphabet has whetted my appetite to read more Mayle.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Its appeal was also its downfall: The little stories were often just a bit too little. I should have stuck with the abridgement.