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A Good Year |  | Author: Peter Mayle
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 481933
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1405500182
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781405500180
ASIN: 1405500182
Publication Date: April 1, 2004
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Affectionate, wry and richly evocative, A GOOD YEAR is Peter Mayle at his most readable: a novel of wine, women and sun, with a plot that offers more twists than a corkscrew.
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 A Good Year, quirky fun soundtrack June 18, 2010
Ms. J. P. Halloran (United Kingdom)
This soundtrack captures the the mood and pace of the film 'A Good Year' very well, it feels sunny and illustrates the two story lines in the film, with the young Max's relationship with his uncle, contrasted with the adult Max, and his adaption from an arrogant city banker, to a chilled out person. There is a quirky eclectic mix of french pop songs, including three tracks by Harry Nilsson, and one by Josephine Baker. I bought this cd because I liked the tracks Max-a-million and Le Coin Perdu.
 A Good Year March 23, 2010
Mr. K. J. Williams (UK)
A beautifully written book in which you can loose yourself in the spirit of Provence. You can almost taste the wine. A great story even though the film#s ending is slightly different.
A Good Year January 6, 2010
Dr H (The world)
Excellent - had seen the film and loved it...this was much better and different twists to similar story.
Excellent value November 27, 2009
Ross
Good fun book, different to the film but with many of the same features. Easy holiday/sick bed reading
"You'll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning [except] how much more enjoyable it is to win." November 15, 2009
Mary Whipple (New England)
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(3.5 stars) Though this delightful novel does not precede the rich and heady memories, adventures, and interesting characters which one finds in A YEAR IN PROVENCE, Mayle's earlier story of Provence, it does pique the reader's imagination with its romantic story of a chateau and a vineyard and a wine scam in which a case of great wine may sell for one hundred thousand dollars. Max Skinner, a down-on-his-luck London investment banker, learns on the day that he is dismissed from his job that his uncle Henry has died in Provence. Max, the son of a British diplomat, had spent many happy summers with his childless uncle, and though he had not seen him recently, he discovers that he is the heir to Uncle Henry's farmhouse/chateau and its vineyards.
With money advanced to him by his former brother-in-law Charlie, a London real estate "baron," Max goes to Provence to see the estate and vineyards, which have been managed for years by Claude Roussel, a local farmer responsible for the vines. Max quickly discovers, however, that the wine produced on the estate is the equivalent of "pipi du chat," undrinkable. The locals in the town have their own priorities, and Max learns in short order that he cannot take people--or what they say--at face value. Though he hires an "oenologue" to visit the chateau to look at the vines, the soil, and the wine the vineyard produces, he suspects that this man may have ulterior motives. Max is soon joined by his wine-loving friend/ex-brother-in-law Charlie and a young woman from California who may have a closer claim to Uncle Henry's estate than Max.
As Max learns about the local wine industry of Provence (even more cut-throat than the investment banking world of London), the reader gets an education and quickly becomes involved in the heady world of wine selling and collecting. The extent to which some growers will go to hide assets and deceive the authorities and the public comes under the microscope here, as Max has to decide whether to become a full-time vineyard owner and lover of (honestly produced) fine wine, or to return to London.
Though Mayle may not be as descriptive or as concerned here with reproducing exact pictures of life as he does in A YEAR IN PROVENCE, he does create an amusing set of circumstances which raise questions about the wine industry. His tone is light and non-judgmental as Max navigates the minefields faced by any stranger to a community governed for generations by the same families. The succession of love stories keeps even the most jaded reader amused and interested, as Max makes his decision about whether to stay in Provence or return to "civilization." Mary Whipple
A Year in Provence
The Vintage Caper
Toujours Provence
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