BOOK ONLINE
| Title | : | Chasing Cezanne: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (309 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067978120X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1998-04-28 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : Our hero, glamorous art photographer Andre Kelly, is on assignment for glamorous DQ Magazine--run by the glamorous Camilla Porter--in Cape Ferrat on the (you guessed it) glamorous Côte d'Azur. Snooping around an ancestral pile for some snaps, by chance he spies Old Claude, the ancient retainer of the immensely wealthy Denoyer family, packing the family Cezanne into a plumbing van. Puzzled, Andre investigates, and the game is afoot. Peter Mayle's latest effort, Chasing Cezanne, is a whodunit that shows good manners and impeccable taste. It takes its characters--graduates of all the best schools, of course--to some of the world's most posh locales. The plot device is high rent, too: a purloined painting worth a cool $30 million. To call this book lightweight seems unfair and boorish besides. There's lots of travel, lots of opulence, lots of opportunities for Mayle to describe Paris and Provence, and all the yummies you'll find in both places. Who can worry about a mys
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle's new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors, and wickedly delectable restaurants. There are stopovers in the Bahamas and England, and in New York, where that glossiest of magazines, Decorating Quarterly, reflects the cutting-edge trendiness of its editor, Camilla Jameson Porter. (Camilla has recently broken new ground in the world of power lunches by booking two tables on the same day, and shuttling between them, at the city's trendiest restaurant.)
It is Camilla who has sent our hero, Andre Kelly, to Cap Ferrat to take glamorous photo-graphs of the houses and treasures of the rich, famous, and fatuous. He happens to have his camera at the ready when he spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck near the hom
This is a very detailed book which covers the intended topic. They did a great job with summarizing the information in a clear precise manner. There was no doubt Peter would capture Nicole's story with the honesty, integrity and the intensity it deserved. I think it's a good book. I was therefore pleasantly surprised to find this book to be such a fantastic resource of new ideas.
The chapters on architectural best practices, naming standards, engine internals, pipeline components (zip and PGP!) were worth the price of the book alone. Allen has some excellent techniques for holding reading conferences with students. The point of this book is that the concept is king. Most encouraging, this book explains the therapy that can help the child (or adult). Mitcham invites you to meet 27 other commanders of the Panzer Army Africa, the Africa Korps, and the four divisions that they directed in Chapter VIII, "The Other Commanders."
In writing about Rommel's subordinates, Mr
No comments:
Post a Comment