A year in Provence
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Clancy, Judith, illustrator.
Published
New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Format
Book
Edition
First Vintage edition.
ISBN
9780679731146, 0679731148
Status
Northampton Forbes Library - Mezzanine
F39ZP94.M453y.1991
1 available
F39ZP94.M453y.1991
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Northampton Forbes Library - Mezzanine | F39ZP94.M453y.1991 | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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AIC Shea Library - Barnard Book Nook | BBN 944.92 MAY | Available |
Agawam Public Library - Nonfiction | 944.9 MAY | Available |
Amherst Jones Library - Lower Level | 944.9 Mayle | Available |
Ashby Free Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction | N 944.92 May | Available |
Blackstone Public Library - Nonfiction | 944.083 MAY | Available |
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Edition
First Vintage edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780679731146, 0679731148
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : Knopf, ©1990.
Description
They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first mistral, which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc with the pipes, to dealing as the months go by with the disarming promises and procrastination of the local masons and plumbers, Peter Mayle delights us with his strategies for survival. He relishes the growing camaraderie with his country neighbors -- despite the rich, soupy, often impenetrable patois that threatens to separate them. He makes friends with boar hunters and truffle hunters, a man who eats foxes, and another who bites dentists; he discovers the secrets of handicapping racing goats and of disarming vipers. And he comes to dread the onslaught of tourists who disrupt his tranquillity. In this often hilarious, seductive book Peter Mayle manages to transport us info all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life and lets us live vicariously in a tempo governed by seasons, not by days. George Lang, who was smitten suggests: "Get a glass of marc, lean back in your most comfortable chair, and spend a delicious year in Provence."
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