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Chasing Cezanne

Peter Mayle
Chasing Cezanne Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307791962

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Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle's new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors, and wickedly delectable restaurants. There are stopovers in the Bahamas and England, and in New York, where that glossiest of magazines, Decorating Quarterly, reflects the cutting-edge trendiness of its editor, Camilla Jameson Porter. (Camilla has recently broken new ground in the world of power lunches by booking two tables on the same day, and shuttling between them, at the city's trendiest restaurant.) It is Camilla who has sent our hero, Andre Kelly, to Cap Ferrat to take glamorous photo-graphs of the houses and treasures of the rich, famous, and fatuous. He happens to have his camera at the ready when he spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck near the home of an absent collector. Odd, thinks Andre. And in no time he's on the trail of a state-of-the-art art scam, chasing Cézanne. It's a joy to follow him and the crowds intent on speeding or foiling his quest--including a beautiful agent; a super-savvy art dealer attracted to the finer things in life, especially if they promise the payoff of a lifetime; an awesome Dutch forger; some outstandingly greedy New York sophisticates; and, invisible in the background, the parade of remarkable chefs whose mouthwatering culinary masterpieces periodically soothe the hero and tantalize the reader of Chasing Cézanne.

Chasing Cézanne

Peter Mayle
Chasing C zanne Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art thefts
ISBN : 014026583X

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A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazine he works for, discovers that a Cezanne painting has been stolen from there. With the editor of the magazine as the suspect thief, he is sent on pursuit of her and the Cezanne through London, the South of France and New York.

Anything Considered

Peter Mayle
Anything Considered Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307791931

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Bennett is an English expatriate living in France with a champagne taste and a beer bankroll. Happy-go-lucky and a bit roguish, he places an ad in the International Herald Tribune offering his services -- any services. He pursues a response from a wealthy Englishman named Julian Poe who has developed a means of producing truffles and is close to cornering the immensely lucrative truffle market. Bennett signs on and finds himself in Monaco, where he is able to live in a style to which he has always wished to become accustomed (including eating to his heart's content -- a Mayle trademark!). Soon the Sicilian and Corsican Mafiosi intrude and Bennett is joined by the beautiful and experienced (in all ways) Anna. Ham-fisted goons, gendarmes working at cross purposes, French village busybodies, and an order of monks dedicated to the god Bacchus all play a role in the surprising, and more than a little satisfying, denouement.

A Year in Provence

Peter Mayle
A Year in Provence Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307755490

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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 Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône 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 Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

Cezanne's Parrot

Amy Guglielmo
Cezanne s Parrot Book PDF

Author : Amy Guglielmo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525515098

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Cezanne's Parrot by Amy Guglielmo Pdf

An inspiring picture book biography of the artist Paul Cezanne, the painter who laid the groundwork for modern art and whom Pablo Picasso declared "the father of us all." All Cezanne wants is to be a great painter like his friends Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir. But when he shows his works, the professors, the critics, and the collectors all dismiss him: "Too flat!" "Too much paint!" "These are rough and unfinished!" Even his own pet parrot, Bisou, can't be brought to say, "Cezanne is a great painter!" And who can blame them? Cezanne doesn't care about tradition, and he doesn't follow the rules. He's painting in a way no one else has done before, creating something completely new--and he's destined to change the world of art forever. Cezanne's Parrot is a spirited celebration of creativity, determination, and perseverance--and the artist who would become known as the father of modern art.

Chasing Cezanne

Peter Mayle
Chasing Cezanne Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783881339

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Read CHASING CEZANNE in Large Print! Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle's new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors, and wickedly delectable restaurants. There are stopovers in the Bahamas and England, and in New York, where that glossiest of magazines, Decorating Quarterly, reflects the cutting-edge trendiness of its editor, Camilla Jameson Porter. (Camilla has recently broken new ground in the world of power lunches by booking two tables on the same day, and shuttling between them, at the city's trendiest restaurant.) It is Camilla who has sent our hero, Andre Kelly, to Cap Ferrat to take glamorous photo-graphs of the houses and treasures of the rich, famous, and fatuous. He happens to have his camera at the ready when he spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck near the home of an absent collector. Odd, thinks Andre. And in no time he's on the trail of a state-of-the-art art scam, chasing Cézanne. It's a joy to follow him and the crowds intent on speeding or foiling his quest--including a beautiful agent; a super-savvy art dealer attracted to the finer things in life, especially if they promise the payoff of a lifetime; an awesome Dutch forger; some outstandingly greedy New York sophisticates; and, invisible in the background, the parade of remarkable chefs whose mouthwatering culinary masterpieces periodically soothe the hero and tantalize the reader of Chasing Cézanne. From the Trade Paperback edition.

A Year in Provence/Toujours Provence

Peter Mayle
A Year in Provence Toujours Provence Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0679749438

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A boxed set containing Mayle's best-selling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence offers a colorful study of the people, landscapes, and life-styles of Provence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Confessions of a French Baker

Peter Mayle,Gerard Auzet
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Author : Peter Mayle,Gerard Auzet
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780307494566

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Confessions of a French Baker by Peter Mayle,Gerard Auzet Pdf

Attention bread lovers!In the first of his famous books about Provence, Peter Mayle shared with us news of a bakery in the town of Cavaillon where the baking and appreciation of breads “had been elevated to the status of a minor religion.” Its name: Chez Auzet.Now, several hundred visits later, Mayle has joined forces with Gerard Auzet, the proprietor of this most glorious of Provençal bakeries, to tell us about breadmaking at its finest.Mayle takes us into the baking room to witness the birth of a loaf. We see the master at work–slapping, rolling, squeezing, folding, and twisting dough as he sculpts it into fougasses, bâtards, and boules. Auzet then gives us precise, beautifully illustrated instructions for making sixteen kinds of bread, from the classic baguette to loaves made with such ingredients as bacon, apricots, hazelnuts, garlic, and green and black olives. There are tips galore, the tricks of the trade are revealed, and along the way Mayle relates the delightful history of four generations of Auzet bakers. One of Provence’s oldest and most delicious pleasures is now available at a kitchen near you, thanks to this charming guide. Read, bake, and enjoy.

Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold)

Blue Balliett
Chasing Vermeer Scholastic Gold Book PDF

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545541015

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Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold) by Blue Balliett Pdf

Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alain De Botton
How Proust Can Change Your Life Book PDF

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307833495

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How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton Pdf

A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times). Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and unclichéd articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from between the lines of his work. Here is Proust as we have never seen or read him before: witty, intelligent, pragmatic. He might well change your life.

A Good Year

Peter Mayle
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Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400042685

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A delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more about wine than Max does—and may have a better claim to the estate. Fizzy with intrigue, bursting with local color and savor, A Good Year is Peter Mayle, beloved author of A Year in Provence, at his most entertaining.

The Courtauld Cézannes

Paul Cézanne,Stephanie Buck,John House,Elisabeth Reissner,Barnaby Wright,Courtauld Institute Galleries,Joanna Selborne
The Courtauld C zannes Book PDF

Author : Paul Cézanne,Stephanie Buck,John House,Elisabeth Reissner,Barnaby Wright,Courtauld Institute Galleries,Joanna Selborne
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822036218733

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The Courtauld Cézannes by Paul Cézanne,Stephanie Buck,John House,Elisabeth Reissner,Barnaby Wright,Courtauld Institute Galleries,Joanna Selborne Pdf

The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain. This book presents the entire collection for the first time, with major paintings such as the iconic Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1887) and Card Players (1892-95) shown alongside rarely seen drawings and watercolors.

The Careful Use of Compliments

Alexander McCall Smith
The Careful Use of Compliments Book PDF

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371713

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Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with Charlie’s father, Jamie, and tending as usual to submissions to the Review of Applied Ethics. But Isabel is deeply unsettled when she receives a letter telling her that she is soon to be replaced as editor of the Review by Christopher Dove, an ambitious academic at a London university, and she considers a variety of ways of dealing with this unwelcome news. And her niece, Cat, who a couple of years before had rejected Jamie and broken his heart, is now furious at Isabel for having stolen him away. Isabel’s insatiable curiosity—or what Jamie sees as her tendency toward meddling—is peaked when she learns some odd details regarding two paintings by a Scottish artist that have come onto the auction market, and she begins to think that the paintings might be forgeries. Her investigation takes her to the beautiful Isle of Jura, where she finds some recent traces of the painter and learns of his apparent suicide in the fabled whirlpool called the Corryvreckan. A visit to the painter’s widow brings a surprising realization, one that contributes to her musings throughout the story on mothers, fathers, and sons.

The Corsican Caper

Peter Mayle
The Corsican Caper Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307962874

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Here is Peter Mayle at his effervescent best—his master sleuth, Sam Levitt, eating, drinking, and romancing his way through the South of France even as he investigates a case of deadly intrigue among the Riviera’s jet set. Billionaire Francis Reboul is taking in the view at his coastal estate, awaiting the arrival of vacationing friends Sam Levitt and Elena Morales, when he spies a massive yacht whose passengers seem a little too interested in his property. The yacht belongs to rapacious Russian tycoon Oleg Vronsky, who, for his own purposes, will stop at nothing to obtain Reboul’s villa. When Reboul refuses to sell, Vronsky’s methods quickly turn unsavory. Now it’s up to Sam—he’s saved Reboul’s neck before—to negotiate with an underworld of mercenaries and hit men, not to mention the Corsican mafia, to prevent his friend from becoming a victim of Vronsky’s “Russian diplomacy.” The dire situation doesn’t stop Sam and Elena from attending glamorous fêtes where the wines and starlets alike sparkle, and enjoying sumptuous meals—from multicourse revelations to understated delights like the first asparagus of the season, on which one must make a wish. But as Sam’s sleuthing draws him closer to the truth of Vronsky’s schemes, he realizes Reboul might not be the only one unable to enjoy the good life for long. Brimming with entertaining twists, sparkling scenery, and mouthwatering gustatory interludes as only Peter Mayle can write them, The Corsican Caper is a one-way ticket to pleasure, Provençal style. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

The Vintage Caper

Peter Mayle
The Vintage Caper Book PDF

Author : Peter Mayle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307273208

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A globetrotting detective story, filled with the culinary delights and entertaining characters from the national bestselling author of A Year in Provence and our most treasured chronicler of French life. “Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor.... Light, funny, and packed with a menu’s worth of scrumptious descriptions of exceptional dinners and drinks.” —USA Today The Vintage Caper begins high above Los Angeles with a world-class heist at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Enter Sam Levitt, former lawyer and wine connoisseur, who follows leads to Bordeaux and Provence. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle’s seductive renderings of France’s sensory delights—from a fine Lynch-Bages to the bouillabaisse of Marseille—guaranteed to charm and inform even the most sophisticated palates.