A Year In Provence (First Printing)
Language: English
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1989
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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First edition, first impression. Very Good+: tight and square binding in bright blue boards; pushed to the spine tips with a little rubbing to the heel; tanned to the edge of the page block; a few spots/marks to the margin, else clean. The unclipped dustwrapper (£12.95 net stated) is Very Good: bright and unfaded; modest rubbing and wrinkling to the extremities; a short closed tear either side of the heel of the spine, each around 6mm, sealed to the verso with professional archival tape; presented in an archival-quality Brodart protective cover. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.
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- Title
- A Year In Provence (First Printing)
- Author
- Peter Mayle
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241122201
- ISBN 13
- 9780241122204
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 366 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.2 centimeters width by 22.2 centimeters height by 2.2 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- 1980s, Travel, Nature & Landscape
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Review
Beginning, appropriately enough, on New Year's Day with a divine luncheon in a quaint restaurant, Mayle sets the scene and pits his British sensibilities against it. "We had talked about it during the long gray winters and the damp green summers," he writes, "looked with an addict's longing at photographs of village markets and vineyards, dreamed of being woken up by the sun slanting through the bedroom window." He describes in loving detail the charming, 200-year-old farmhouse at the base of the Lubéron Mountains, its thick stone walls and well-tended vines, its wine cave and wells, its shade trees and swimming pool--its lack of central heating. Indeed, not 10 pages into the book, reality comes crashing into conflict with the idyll when the Mistral, that frigid wind that ravages the Rhône valley in winter, cracks the pipes, rips tiles from the roof, and tears a window from its hinges. And that's just January.
In prose that skips along lightly, Mayle records the highlights of each month, from the aberration of snow in February and the algae-filled swimming pool of March through the tourist invasions and unpredictable renovations of the summer months to a quiet Christmas alone. Throughout the book, he paints colorful portraits of his neighbors, the Provençaux grocers and butchers and farmers who amuse, confuse, and befuddle him at every turn. A Year in Provence is part memoir, part homeowner's manual, part travelogue, and all charming fun. --L.A. Smith
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