A Good Year
by Peter Mayle
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Author: Peter MayleEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-14
ISBN: 0375705627
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Vintage
Book Reviews of A Good Year
Book Review: Light and fluffy, needs more wine
Summary: 3 Stars
A British man in a dead-end job in London gets fired and, on the same day, inherits a vineyard in Provence--that is the premise for this light novel. It was entertaining enough, but a trifle fluffy for my tastes I wish more of the narrative had been spent on wine and food, and less on silly conspiratorial plots and even sillier romances.
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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