Feasting Season
Nancy Coons
(Author)
Description
Meg Parker, an American travel-book writer, lives in the Lorraine countryside with her two small children and a neglectful husband. Domestic life is beginning to take its toll until Meg is offered her dream assignment: to write a guidebook about French history. Unfortunately, there is a catch. Jean-Jacques, a scruffy and imperious photographer, has been assigned to the project. As the dueling pair visits each region in search of the past, what they find is the colorful, food-filled present--the festive bullfights in the Camargue, the sacred gypsy pilgrimage at Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer, the pictographs and lightning storms of Mount Bégo. And over the course of mouthwatering meals--of lamb daube, paella and rosé, bull steak and anchioade, Brebis and strawberries--their antagonistic collaboration turns into a fiery love affair. Meg's notions about history--about what we preserve and how we accept the new--evolve, and in the end, she must reconcile her two lives and decide what to hold on to, and what to let go.
Product Details
Price
$24.99
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Publish Date
July 13, 2007
Pages
382
Dimensions
7.9 X 8.24 X 1.02 inches | 0.87 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781565125193
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliateAbout the Author
Nancy Coons is the author of Escape to Provence, Escape to the Riviera, Fodor's Provence and the Cote d'Azur, andFodor's Switzerland and a contributor to guides on France, Italy, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Her commentaries on French life have aired on NPR's All Things Considered, and she has contributed to Saveur, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. She lives in a three-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Lorraine region of France with her husband and two daughters.