A Good Year

A Good Year
by Peter Mayle

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Author: Peter Mayle
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-14
ISBN: 0375705627
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Vintage

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Summary: 5 Stars

There is very much a place on my bookshelves, and I suspect on those of many other readers, for books that entertain, charm and take us somewhere far from our everyday working world without requiring us to enter into the dark recesses of the human mind, go through gut wrenching turmoil, or be involuntarily intellectually stretched before emerging from the final page in need of a mini break. Of course this book is a little lightweight, but just the thing to pop into your hand luggage en route to a holiday destination. Having personally travelled annually for more than twenty five years (part pleasure, part to research books) to the Drome, Vaucluse and Luberon regions of Provence, been soothed back into a semblance of sanity by good wines, good food, glorious scenery, overdosing on lavender fields and peace, not to mention the companionship of wonderful Proven?al friends, I can unequivocally say that Peter Mayle does not exaggerate the charms of this beautiful part of the planet or of its people. Mayle is a master of the aptly chosen phrase, a first rate raconteur with an eye for the ridiculous, and just the amusing companion you need while resting on a deck chair or dreaming of sunshine and summer holidays in the depths of winter. Here's a glass of chilled Tavel ros? raised to Peter Mayle. Judyth McLeod, author of 'In a Unicorn's Garden'.

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Summary of A Good Year

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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