Toujours Provence (1991)

by Peter Mayle

Series: Provence (2)

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Title:	Toujours Provence
Authors:	Peter Mayle
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Just what I needed for a light read while I convalesced from a cold. Who wouldn't want to be Peter Mayle, living in Provence fulltime? I suppose there are drawbacks such as the influx of summer people and the risk of forest fires but really, that seems like small flies in the ointment when you can buy fresh produce of almost any description at almost any time of the year. Or if you don't feel like cooking yourself you can go to the local cafe for a three-course lunch. Even the truck stops serve gourmet fare.

I'm sure even a cold would be more bearable in Provence. Maybe pastis would cure it completely. (

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gypsysmom | Oct 1, 2012 |

Excellent descriptions of a new life in Provence. Although not a current book it is timelessly entertaining. Mayle tells delightful stories that enrich the travel genre. (

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Harrod | Aug 8, 2012 |

ספר המשך וככל ספרי ההמשך חלש יותר מהמקור, עדיין מב (

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amoskovacs | Oct 15, 2011 |

This, and A Year in Provence are his best books. His other fiction, set in Provence, are not worth it, a mon avis! But Toujours and Year are both in the best tradition of travel books --- they transport you to another time and place so effectively and enjoyably that you finish the book and immediately look around for your suitcase and passport.

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Peter Mayle	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Hazenberg, Annelies	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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A Year in Provence / Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle

The Provence Trilogy by Peter Mayle

A Year in Provence / Toujours Provence / Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle

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Peter Mayle's Provence [Abridged Audiobook of A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence] by Peter Mayle

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New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction, 1991)

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To Jennie, as always,
and to the friends and partners in research
who have been so generous in so many ways:
Michel from Chateauneuf, Michel from Cabrieres,
Henriette and Faustin, Alain the truffle hunter,
Christopher, Catherine, and Bernard

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I had been to a pharmacy in Apt for toothpaste and suntan oil, two innocent and perfectly healthy purchases.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERTaking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog "Boy"—Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all," you can surely have a very good time trying.

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The author introduces readers to some of the interesting characters found in the region of Provence--a disgraced gendarme, a gourmet in a track suit, and a man whose ambition is to make toads sing.

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