![]() ![]() Here is a global citizen with enough grace and patience to integrate successfully into a new culture. His measured pace reflects the sustained, good-natured observation that must have engendered the book. Like a master conversationalist, the narrator never dwells unduly on any one detail or event. ![]() The prose appears very well edited and goes down as easily as a glass of rosé in the Mediterranean sun. Along the way, the protagonists deal with extreme weather conditions, eager visitors, and the dramatic yet lax manners of the locals. harvests) instead of the more abstract schedules of the corporate world. Each chapter features a month of the year, January through December, suggesting how the natives mark their time by seasons (i.e. The book recounts how the couple got to know colorful locals through their culinary adventures and attempts to restore the old property. He had visited the region several times with his wife throughout his career eventually they fulfilled their dream of buying a two-hundred-year-old house in the Lubéron massif near the town of Ménerbes. A Year in Provence (1989) is a breezy travelogue by Peter Mayle, an advertising executive who retired to the south of France in the 1980s. ![]()
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