NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lub�ron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rh�ne Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Proven�al life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

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Title: A Year in Provence
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0679731148
ISBN 13: 9780679731146
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lub�ron with his wife and two large dogs.

He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rh�ne Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Proven�al life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

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Peter Mayle is the author of fifteen books, nine of them novels, including the beloved bestseller A Year in Provence. A recipient of the L�gion d’Honneur from the French government for his cultural contributions, he lived in Provence with his wife, Jennie, for more than twenty-five years. Mayle died in 2018.

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