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Title: Encore Provence : New Adventures in the South of France by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0-679-76269-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (59 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You really have to be a franchophile to love his books!
Comment: I read this book when it first came out and loved it as as I have loved his past French writings. I am re-reading it again and can understand how some people may get a negative feeling about his latest piece. But I do believe his French stuff is more for a small niche of readers who either have spent time in France or are serious francophiles. I have lived 5 years in Paris and am a tour guide in France and whenever I read his books, it definitely takes me back to a Provence that I too have known to love. I can understand his chapter when he goes up against the NY Times food critic but it sure sounded like she was one of these people who would also use the old stereotype that the French are rude! Au contraire! And Mr. Mayle doesn't translate his French idioms! This book is for Francophiles and Francophones! So if you love France as much as some of us do, go out and buy this wonderful, delicious book!
Rating: 4
Summary: I laughed at the shotgun murder ... and felt good about it!
Comment: Twelve years ago, Peter Mayle gifted us with "A Year In Provence", an account of this expatriate Brit's plunge into Gallic life, revolving around the pleasures and pitfalls of establishing a residence in rural France in an old country house that was somewhat of a "fixer-upper". Several Provence-related books later, and after a period of time living on Long Island, Peter and his wife return to the land they (and we) love. The result is "Encore Provence". The latest book doesn't hold together as well as "Year", the elements of the latter forming a more cohesive whole. However, "Encore" is certainly much better than some of his other books written in the interim.
In "Encore", Peter briefly revisits several topics covered in the original, as well as several more which were apparently overlooked. The range is quixotic: the cultivation of olive trees, an explanation of the three grades of virgin olive oil, the smelly art of selecting fragrances for designing perfumes, foie gras as the key to longevity, discovering the perfect corkscrew, touring Marseille, the almost-underworld of the village truffle market, how to execute the Provençal full shrug, the obligatory elements of the Provençal village, and, umm ..... the shotgun murder of an amorous meat cutter. And, of course, many hedonistic references to the local food and wine. All are treated in the utterly charming and dryly humorous Mayle-style that makes his books so delightful.
Bravo and merci beaucoup, Mr. Mayle! You've provided another enjoyable spice to my life.
Rating: 3
Summary: I Love Peter Mayle, but this was a little thin
Comment: I read this on my trip to Provance. I loved his first two books, but this time, I felt as though he was just trying to fill a third book. Still he is a great story telleer and some of them were really great!...I also read while there,and would reccommend, Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France by Nicholas Delbanco.
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Title: Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0679736042 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0375705619 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0679731148 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Hotel Pastis : A Novel of Provence by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0679751114 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Acquired Tastes by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0553371835 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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