Window on Provence: One Summer's Sojourn Into the Simple Life

Niles, Bo Thorne

ISBN 10: 014012022X / ISBN 13: 9780140120226

Published by Penguin Books, 1991

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Fine interior, worn covers, stained on bottom edge, one crease in spine. 208 p.

Seller Inventory # 019412

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Window on Provence: One Summer's Sojourn Into the Simple Life
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014012022X
• ISBN 13: 9780140120226
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Recits de Voyage

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From Library Journal

Wife, mother, daughter, editor--which of these so overwhelmed Niles that she fled the pressures of New York City for a month with her parents in Provence? This work, in which Niles recounts her "sabbatical" month off, is a rather whining, pretentious effort littered with Miss Piggy-like "Frenchisms" and an occasional "Italianism." Niles rarely mixes with the locals, ostensibly because the locals don't mix. A few of the sights, sounds, and smells of Provence do filter through in spite of the florid prose. Readers looking for the real flavor of Provence should try Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence ( LJ 4/1/90)--a short, funny, warm tale of a family's attempt to renovate an old farmhouse. Not recommended.
- Paula M. Zieselman, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York
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