![]() ![]() His adventures, gastronomic and otherwise, are thoroughly entertaining. Peter Mayle is the author of fifteen books, nine of them novels, including the beloved bestseller A Year in Provence. The novel A Good Year was the basis for the 2006 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott and starring actors Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. He opens with an account of a memorable New Year's lunch, ends with an appreciation of an impromptu Christmas dinner, and describes just about every meal eaten during the months in between. A Year in Provence was subsequently produced as a TV series starring John Thaw and screened in 1993. The Provencal cuisine is Mayle's leitmotif, however. Even donating blood is an occasion for fun. ![]() In nimble prose, Mayle, columnist for GQ, captures the humorous aspects of visits to markets, vineyards and goat races, and hunting for mushrooms. Throwing themselves into the life of this rural region, they master the local customs, gain partial understanding of their neighbors' patois, overcome the frustrations of French bureaucracy, and learn to deal with workmen who operate on the idiosyncratic Provencal sense of time. ![]() The author describes his first 12 months in Provence, after he and his wife have abandoned England for an 18th-century farmhouse in the Luberon Mountains. ![]()
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