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.
publishers Weekly
as Fans Of A Year In Provence And Toujours Provence May Have Suspected, Mayle's Skills As A Writer Translate Well Into Fiction. His First Novel Is As Adroit, Funny And Charming As His Previous Works, And Again It Is Set In His Favorite Region Of France. Newly Divorced, Disenchanted And Bored With His Job As A Director Of A Prestigious British Ad Agency, Simon Shaw Is Delighted When Beautiful Frenchwoman Nicole Bouvier Suggests That He Rescue From Bankruptcy A Half-finished Hotel In The Drolly Named Town Of Brassiere-les-deux-eglises. Taking A Huge Risk, Simon Resigns From His Agency And Becomes Patron Of The New Establishment In The Picturesque Luberon Region. In Counterpoint, Mayle Crosscuts To The Escapades Of A Lovable Band Of Criminals Who Are Conspiring To Break Into The Vault Of A Bank In The Neighboring Village Of Isle-sur-sorges. As The Threads Of The Plot Begin To Converge, Mayle Displays His Satiric Eye For Social Foibles By Skewering Advertising Execs In England And The U.s.; He Is Equally Adept At Evoking Typical Provencal Villagers. Wickedly Sharp And Sympathetic At The Same Time, His Characterizations Are Accurate Down To Nuances Of Class Differences, Voice, Accent And Vocabulary. The Novel Is As Smooth As A Sip Of Pastis, And One Hopes That Mayle Will Find His Segue Into Fiction Equally Addictive. 100,000 First Printing. (oct.)
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Mystery
- Cozy
- Culinary
- Cozy
- Mystery
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Mayle, Peter
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :1994-11-08
Number Of Pages : 400
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0679751114
ISBN-13 : 9780679751113
Item weight : 0.66 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 5 in x 7.8 in
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