Chasing Cezanne - Softcover

Mayle, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014026583X ISBN 13: 9780140265835

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

Title: Chasing Cezanne <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: PeterMayle <>Publisher: VintageBooksUSA

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Review:

Our hero, glamorous art photographer Andre Kelly, is on assignment for glamorous DQ Magazine--run by the glamorous Camilla Porter--in Cape Ferrat on the (you guessed it) glamorous Côte d'Azur. Snooping around an ancestral pile for some snaps, by chance he spies Old Claude, the ancient retainer of the immensely wealthy Denoyer family, packing the family Cezanne into a plumbing van. Puzzled, Andre investigates, and the game is afoot. Peter Mayle's latest effort, Chasing Cézanne, is a whodunit that shows good manners and impeccable taste. It takes its characters--graduates of all the best schools, of course--to some of the world's most posh locales. The plot device is high rent, too: a purloined painting worth a cool 30 million dollars. To call this book lightweight seems unfair and boorish besides. There's lots of travel, lots of opulence, lots of opportunities for Mayle to describe Paris and Provence, and all the yummies you'll find in both places. Who can worry about a mystery when the food's so delectable? --Ida Kulest

About the Author:

Peter Mayle escaped Madison Avenue in 1975 to write books after fifteen years in the advertising business. He has contributed to a wide range of publications and his work has been translated into twenty-two languages. His other books include A YEAR IN PROVENCE, TOUJOURS PROVENCE, HOTEL PASTIS, A DOG'S LIFE and ANYTHING CONSIDERED all published in Penguin. He lives in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 014026583X
• ISBN 13: 9780140265835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256