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They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of somedayliving all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened.Here is the monthbymonth account of the charms and frustrations that PeterMayle and his wife and their two large dogs experience their first yearin the remote country of the Luberon restoring a twocenturiesold stonefarmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the firstmistral which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc withthe pipes to dealing as the months go by with the disarming promises andprocrastination of the local masons and plumbers Peter Mayle delights us withhis strategies for survival. He relishes the growing camaraderie with hiscountry neighbors despite the rich soupy often impenetrable patois thatthreatens to separate them. He makes friends with boar hunters and trufflehunters a man who eats foxes and another who bites dentists he discovers thesecrets of handicapping racing goats and of disarming vipers. And he comes todread the onslaught of tourists who disrupt his tranquillity.In this often hilarious seductive book Peter Mayle manages to transport usinfo all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life and lets us live vicariously ina tempo governed by seasons not by days. George Lang who was smittensuggests Get a glass of marc lean back in your most comfortable chair andspend a delicious year in Provence. «
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