Acquired Tastes in Paperback format by Mayle, Peter. Published by BANTAM DELL in 1993. Available in Used - Very Good condition.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0553371835
ISBN-13
9780553371833
Publication Date
Apr 1993
Item Weight
0.60 pounds
Length
8.27 inch
Width
5.24 inch
Height
0.55 inch
First Sentence
Most of us, I believe, are born with a latent tendency toward extravagance, a lust for more and better, which lurks somewhere in the genes, ready to erupt at the hint of good fortune and the drop of a credit card.
Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. Born in Brighton, Sussex, the youngest of three children, Mayle and his parents moved to Barbados in the aftermath of World War II, where his father was transferred as a Colonial Office employee. Mayle returned to England after leaving school at 16 in Barbados. He relocated from Devon to the Lubéron, southern France, in the late 80s but his plans to write a novel were overtaken by an account of life in his new environment. This resulted in *A Year in Provence*, chronicling his first year as a British expatriate in Ménerbes, a village in the southern département Vaucluse. *A Year in Provence* (1989) was the first in a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there. Several more books followed, which have been translated in more than twenty languages.
Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mayle)
