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Le Village is a small town at the southwestern-most tip of France. Here a young Englishwoman fell in love with France the French and one Frenchman in particular.
In her seductive lyrical and witty memoir Helen Stevenson writes about life in Le Village not as an expat but as someone adopted by her neighbours as one of their own. By Stefan the Maoist tennis fanatic who lives off his lover in solidarity with the unemployed; by Gigi the chic Parisian who dresses her ex-lovers' girlfriends from the stock of her exquisite boutique; and by Luc the crumpled cowboy painter and part-time dentist who overcoming an aversion to blondes takes the Englishwoman up to his remote mas shows her his paintings and teaches her to ride.
Describing the colour and light of the landscape with lyrical intensity and savouring the languid and sexy flavour of the Mediterranean lifestyle Helen Stevenson lays bare a romantic but potentially disastrous love affair with the man 'who seems like the only man alive to me the one with the halo round his head in a crowd if I should ever see him in a crowd'. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VISITORS may start as an objective guide for tenants arriving at her village house but it ends as a very personal revelation of how difficult it can be to transplant oneself into someone else's country someone else's culture someone else's heart.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
254
Release Date:
2011-06-07
Publication Date:
2011-06-07
Publisher:
Black Swan
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0552777927
ISBN13:
9780552777926
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Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
302 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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