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Mayle, Peter was born in 1939 in Surrey, England, AMERICA0.
(NATIONAL BESTSELLERTaking up where his beloved A Year in ...)
NATIONAL BESTSELLERTaking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog "Boy"—Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all," you can surely have a very good time trying.
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(From vantage points as varied as the Cannes Film Festival...)
From vantage points as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, the "caves" at Chateauneuf-du-Pape and the Menerbes Dog Show, this book show that life in the Provence is far from the quiet and uneventful existence suggested by those postcards of empty villages and picturesque peasants. All kinds of characters are lurking in the lavender: estate agents, a disgraced gendarme, reporters from "Vogue" and hot off the auto-route and baying for social activity, the summer invaders. This is the sequel to "A Year in Provence".
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( Before his glorious retreat to Provence, delightfully c...)
Before his glorious retreat to Provence, delightfully chronicled in his best-sellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle made his career in advertising, beginning as a copywriter and finishing thirteen years later as a creative director ("I think I was also a vice president, " he writes "but I never had the cards printed"). Up the Agency is his caustic valentine to the culture of Madison Avenue, where the tribal customs and rituals are as wondrous to behold as the sights on any anthropological expedition. Treading fearlessly and wittily where no one without a customized BMW and matching Armani suit has gone before, Mayle dissects this odd and endlessly fascinating industry - where the speed of a new talent's ascent can be matched only by his shocking fall months later. Whether describing the perfect ad man, the frenzy and desperation of putting together a new campaign, or the treachery of the fickle product-buying public, Mayle brings his insightful eye to bear on this very funny business, which brings both pleasure and pain to millions - and millions to a few.
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(This is a witty tale of moving to the remote country of L...)
This is a witty tale of moving to the remote country of Luberon with his wife and two large dogs. Living his dream in a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the Rhone Valley, discovering all the regional cuisine. A Year in learning all the Provencal life pleasures.
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(Attention bread lovers!In the first of his famous books a...)
Attention bread lovers!In the first of his famous books about Provence, Peter Mayle shared with us news of a bakery in the town of Cavaillon where the baking and appreciation of breads “had been elevated to the status of a minor religion.” Its name: Chez Auzet.Now, several hundred visits later, Mayle has joined forces with Gerard Auzet, the proprietor of this most glorious of Provençal bakeries, to tell us about breadmaking at its finest.Mayle takes us into the baking room to witness the birth of a loaf. We see the master at work–slapping, rolling, squeezing, folding, and twisting dough as he sculpts it into fougasses, bâtards, and boules. Auzet then gives us precise, beautifully illustrated instructions for making sixteen kinds of bread, from the classic baguette to loaves made with such ingredients as bacon, apricots, hazelnuts, garlic, and green and black olives. There are tips galore, the tricks of the trade are revealed, and along the way Mayle relates the delightful history of four generations of Auzet bakers. One of Provence’s oldest and most delicious pleasures is now available at a kitchen near you, thanks to this charming guide. Read, bake, and enjoy.
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(A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazi...)
A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazine he works for, discovers that a Cezanne painting has been stolen from there. With the editor of the magazine as the suspect thief, he is sent on pursuit of her and the Cezanne through London, the South of France and New York.
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(Bestselling author Peter Mayle and acclaimed children’s b...)
Bestselling author Peter Mayle and acclaimed children’s book illustrator Arthur Robins combine their talents in this delightful children’s storybook. Once you’ve met Chilly Billy and heard of his adventures inside the refrigerator, you’ll never open the fridge door in quite the same way again! Chilly Billy is a fun and lovable character you won’t forget. Reissued exclusively through Escargot Books. Illustrated in black and white.
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(With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Touj...)
With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, set in the beguiling French region he has staked out as his own.
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(Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source ...)
Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle's new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors, and wickedly delectable restaurants. There are stopovers in the Bahamas and England, and in New York, where that glossiest of magazines, Decorating Quarterly, reflects the cutting-edge trendiness of its editor, Camilla Jameson Porter. (Camilla has recently broken new ground in the world of power lunches by booking two tables on the same day, and shuttling between them, at the city's trendiest restaurant.) It is Camilla who has sent our hero, Andre Kelly, to Cap Ferrat to take glamorous photo-graphs of the houses and treasures of the rich, famous, and fatuous. He happens to have his camera at the ready when he spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck near the home of an absent collector. Odd, thinks Andre. And in no time he's on the trail of a state-of-the-art art scam, chasing Cézanne. It's a joy to follow him and the crowds intent on speeding or foiling his quest--including a beautiful agent; a super-savvy art dealer attracted to the finer things in life, especially if they promise the payoff of a lifetime; an awesome Dutch forger; some outstandingly greedy New York sophisticates; and, invisible in the background, the parade of remarkable chefs whose mouthwatering culinary masterpieces periodically soothe the hero and tantalize the reader of Chasing Cézanne.
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Amazon.com Review: Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Year in Provence, the chronicle of his own foray into Provençal domesticity. 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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(The writer with a claim to being the world’s foremost lit...)
The writer with a claim to being the world’s foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more about wine than Max does–and may have a better claim to the estate. Fizzy with intrigue, bursting with local color and savor, A Good Year is Mayle at his most entertaining.
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(A farmhouse, a vineyard, a soul on escape from the city P...)
A farmhouse, a vineyard, a soul on escape from the city Peter Mayle thus started his search of peace in Provence. Bathed in the warmth of sun at day, accompanied by the songs of beetles at night, indulged in the delicacy and wines, joined by the farmers and handymen, dwelled in a countryside faraway from complexity. In the changes of season, time seems to be slowing its steps with a leisure life, washing off the dust from the city. Harvesting joy, the author almost became a satisfied vegetable in the garden. With elegance and humor, Mayle recorded the easiness and happiness of his 12 months in Provence, drawing the restless souls to a harbor where they enjoy the passing of time in peace.
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( When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gr...)
When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in France, taking part in goat races, attending a Pavorotti concert under the stars - and much more. Meet Provence's unique characters: a wary truffle hunter, a gourmet in a track suit, the wise and crafty Massot - and many more. Funny, touching, endearing - Peter Mayle's Provence proves the adage that while you may not be able to escape from it all, you sure can have fun trying.
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(Après une Année en Provence, Peter Mayle poursuit ici l''...)
Après une Année en Provence, Peter Mayle poursuit ici l''évocation de la vie quotidienne à Ménerbes, petit village du Luberon. Au Café du Progrès où se tiennent des débats sur les crapauds chanteurs et où l''on discute le prix des truffes, il rencontre des personnages à la verve authentique et fougueuse et nous entraîne, à l''ombre des oliviers, à la découverte des mystères et des petits secrets d''une Provence savoureuse.
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(Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins combine their talents to br...)
Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins combine their talents to bring you this delightful children’s storybook, first released in 1987. In The Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy you met the little man who lives in the fridge. Now Footprints in the Butter brings readers further adventures of this delightful character and his many wonderful friends! Illustrated in black and white.
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(The ultimate “dictionary” for lovers of Provence: Peter M...)
The ultimate “dictionary” for lovers of Provence: Peter Mayle's personal selection of the foods, customs and words he finds most fascinating, curious, delicious, or just plain fun. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. In more than 170 entries, Peter Mayle—bestselling author of A Year in Provence—writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin). And, of course, he writes about food and drink: vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle's ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.
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Mayle, Peter was born in 1939 in Surrey, England, AMERICA0.
Advertising copywriter, London. Columnist Gentleman's Quarterly.
( Before his glorious retreat to Provence, delightfully c...)
(From vantage points as varied as the Cannes Film Festival...)
(Attention bread lovers!In the first of his famous books a...)
(Shows readers how to take advantage of their baby during ...)
(NATIONAL BESTSELLERTaking up where his beloved A Year in ...)
(The writer with a claim to being the world’s foremost lit...)
(The ultimate “dictionary” for lovers of Provence: Peter M...)
( When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gr...)
( When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gr...)
(Offers "small people" help on problems related to school,...)
(Bestselling author Peter Mayle and acclaimed children’s b...)
(A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazi...)
(With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Touj...)
(Après une Année en Provence, Peter Mayle poursuit ici l''...)
(Peter Mayle and Arthur Robins combine their talents to br...)
(A farmhouse, a vineyard, a soul on escape from the city P...)
(A handbook offering "reassurance, sympathy, and sound adv...)
(Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source ...)
(This is a witty tale of moving to the remote country of L...)
(Ma femme se plongea dans des catalogues de roses et je fi...)
(INTRIGUING STORY BY PETER MAYLE AUTHOR OF " A YEAR IN PRO...)
(Encore Provence: New Adventrues in the South of France)
(A Year in Provence: ISBN 0679731148. Encore Provence: 067...)
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(A Year in Provence by Mayle,Peter. 1991 Paperback)
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Married Jennie Mayle.