Love in Provence: Romantic Adventures in the South of France
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (625 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871272407 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"allow the words to speak romantic imagination together whiletaste buds enjoy the cuisine recipes provided between the covers." -- Marvin Arthur, Arthur's International
Remarkable in every way! From its style to its authentic-sounding anecdotes ranging from the picturesque to the emotionally charged, to its superb enthusiasm, all is just wonderful. Including recipes was a startlingly good idea. Love in Provence should be proposed as mandatory reading in universities and colleges, for these are times when more windows need to be opened onto the world.. Deborah Palmer said Fun and lighthearted reading. Yvone Lenard has done it again. Reading her books is like being in Provence with her. You can picture the lavender filled fields, and taste the delicious food. These stories are both amusing and touching. I loved it!. OMG: I have to read this. Mark in Irvine I spent my junior year in college in Aix-en-Provence with the Cal State University System during the academic year 1972-1973. It was a tumultuous time for America and the world: the Watergate scandal shared space on the front pages of the world newspapers with the war in Vietnam, and the tragedy of the Palestinian terrorists' murder of the Israeli athletes in Munich's Olympic Village. If I'm not mistaken, Bill Hope was one of the professors who helped me polish my French and navigate the new world my fellow American students and I found in Aix. I ate horsemeat and "boudin" (sausage made of blood) for the first (and last) times in my l
When not counseling her charges, Lenard finds a “safe” escort in the charming and eccentric Bill Hope, an American expatriate with whom she probes ancient villages and ruins and dines at sunset on the terraces of elegant restaurants. As Resident Director of the program Lenard soon has her hands full, but her sense of humor prevails and she stays to form affectionate relationships with the students and a love affair with Provence. The ten stories in this collection are set in some of the region’s most romantic locales. Proclaiming themselves on their applications to the program to be “ambassadors of culture,” their thoughts and senses turn to romance and sex upon arrival. Love is something quite different in Provence, as Yvone Lenard discovers when she chaperones 50 red-blooded American college students for a year at California State Uni
She is the author of The Magic of Provence and Chantal. She lives in Los Angeles and Provence, France.. Yvone Lenard is a native of France