Provence: From Minstrels to the Machine
Jan 2013 · Carcanet Press Limited
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A cross-genre evocation of a writer's life in the Mediterranean, this account documents the happy years Ford Madox Ford spent living in the South of France with his young artist lover, Biala.. Blending fiction, history, memoir, travel, and cookery writing, this tome charmingly evokes Ford and Biala's ramshackle, bohemian life in their villa on the Mediterranean coast. From social encounters with Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse to the delights of growing vegetables, this spontaneous and entertaining book is a true love letter to the Provençal lifestyle.
A cross-genre evocation of a writer's life in the Mediterranean, this account documents the happy years Ford Madox Ford spent living in the South of France with his young artist lover, Biala.. Blending fiction, history, memoir, travel, and cookery writing, this tome charmingly evokes Ford and Bia...
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Ford Madox Ford was an editor, essayist, critic, advocate, and novelist. He is the author of The Good Soldier, It Was the Nightingale, and Parade's End. John Coyle is the editor of Carcanet's Millennium Ford series and has edited Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Ford Madox Ford was an editor, essayist, critic, advocate, and novelist. He is the author of The Good Soldier, It Was the Nightingale, and Parade's End. John Coyle is the editor of Carcanet's Millennium Ford series and has edited Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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