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Title: Hotel Pastis - A Novel of Provence

Author: Peter Mayle

LOC Call No.: PR6063.A8875 H6

LOC Subjects:
Country life -- France -- Provence -- Fiction.
Hotelkeepers -- France -- Provence -- Fiction.
Provence (France) -- Fiction.
Adventure stories.
Pastoral fiction.

Source: owned

Rating: a straight-through read that will make you laugh aloud

Readings: 10/3/96

If you have read Mayle's A Year in Provence, you must read this book. Mayle is a great sensual writer, being (like the main character) a former ad agency executive. And he writes wonderfully of two very sensual topics: food and sex. Mind you, there is nothing sexually explicit here, but you might very well find yourself daydreaming--and hungry. Not only is Mayle sensual, he is also extraordinarily funny. Ernest the effeminate (and presumably gay) butler-chauffeur-valet-chef-manager-decorator-etc. is an unforgettable character. Kim was after me for months to read this. Now I understand why. I also understand why she wanted to go someplace warm on our last vacation…. Lots of fun.


Page created 10/5/96.
Last updated 03/17/03 at 14:33.

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