Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon (DESTINATIONS) - Hardcover

Fisher, M. F. K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0139295488 ISBN 13: 9780139295485

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1991

Synopsis

Recounts the author's three year stay in Dijon before the outbreak of World War II, and details the people encountered there

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From the Back Cover:

A generation before Peter Mayle first set eyes on Provençe, a young American bride, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, came to France and discovered a profusion of tastes, pastimes and sensuous pleasures in Dijon, France’s gastronomic capital. Picaresque, mouth-watering and crowded with unforgettable characters, 'Long Ago in France' is indeed a feast of a book, a delightful journey back to a voluptuous, genteel world, now vanished for ever.

“'Long Ago in France' captures, in loving and nostalgic detail, the life of a small French provincial town between the wars, when its inhabitants lived simply, ate well and gossiped”
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“'Long Ago in France' is a Burgundian feast, robust but exquisitely delicate, as fresh as the ingredients bought in this morning’s market”
NICHOLAS WOLLASTON, 'Observer'

“The enveloping glow of a young American couple in love, living on the cheap in 1920s France, is reminiscent of Hemingway – as are the lush discoveries of French wine and food ... Marvellously evocative”
SUNDAY TIMES

“I do not know of anyone in the United States today who writes better prose”
W.H. AUDEN

“M.F.K. Fisher is a poet of the appetites”
JOHN UPDIKE

About the Author:

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) is the author of sixteen books of essays and reminiscences, many of which have become American classics. Her books include "The Gastronomical Me "and "How to Cook a Wolf". In 1991, she was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0139295488
• ISBN 13: 9780139295485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 159