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(Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living (Paperback)
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(Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living (Paperback)
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List price R405
Loot Price R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save R75 (19%)
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A Wall Street Journal Bestseller! In the tradition of Peter Mayle's
A Year in Provence, let the author of I'll Never Be French
introduce you to Brittany a world of color and flavor that most of
us only fantasize about. Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the
small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark
Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled
Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK,
slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook
for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or
exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And
most dauntingly of all, when can he touch the tomatoes? Despite two
decades that have passed since Greenside's snap decision to buy a
house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life, the quirks of
French living still manage to confound him. Continuing the journey
begun in his 2009 memoir about beginning life in France, (Not
Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside's daily
adventures in his adopted French home, where the simplest tasks are
never straightforward but always end in a great story. Through some
hits and lots of misses, he learns the rules of engagement, how to
get what he needs-which is not necessarily what he thinks he
wants-and how to be grateful and thankful when (especially when) he
fails, which is more often than he can believe. "This is my world,
the Old World that is constantly new to me. I've been coming to
France-Brittany-for more than twenty years now, and I'm still
trying to master the art of French living. For a guy who likes to
think he knows what he's doing, it's been an unexpectedly bumpy
ride." Experienced Francophiles and armchair travelers alike will
delight in Greenside's exploring the practical and philosophical
questions of French life, vividly brought to life by his humor and
affection for his community.
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