Notes from the Cevennes Thorpe Adam
Notes from the Cevennes Thorpe Adam A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet.Adam Thorpe's…
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Notes from the Cevennes Thorpe Adam
A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet.Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the C vennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. In his charming journal, Notes from the C vennes, Thorpe takes up these themes, writing about his surroundings, the village and his house at the heart of it, as well as the contrasts of city life in nearby N mes. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a C venol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic.In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the C vennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the people of this part of France for his inspiration.
In particular he is interested in how the past