{"product_id":"provence-isbn-9798896230427","title":"Provence","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow considered a cult classic, this dreamy portrait of Provence before World War II brings the storied region in vivid color. From one of the great British authors of the twentieth century, this whimsical, personal, and sensual overview of Provençal life, culture, architecture, and history will transport you straight to the south of France.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePre-World War II Provence, “not a country nor the home of a race, but a frame of mind,” is the subject of Ford Madox Ford’s whimsically comprehensive exploration of the history, personal experience, and miscellaneous sensations that enrich his vision of the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a new introduction by Nicholas Delbanco, and illustrations by Ford’s companion, Janice Biala, \u003ci\u003eProvence\u003c\/i\u003e is not so much a travel narrative as an invocation, recalling to mind the fascination this quiet, fertile place held for artists and writers during a period of imminent cultural and political upheaval.“As human beings recklessly use up the world's resources and despoil the planet, as the folly of globalisation becomes more apparent, as we head towards what could be the biggest smash of all, the wisdom and the way of living that Ford Madox Ford – literature's good soldier – found in Provence are perhaps even more worth attending to.” — Julian Barnes, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To me, Ford is one of those prodigious writing engines, like Trollope or Wodehouse, who published so much that he seems inexhaustible. His nonfiction glories in being quirky and self-indulgent, while remaining great fun as well as insightful, even prescient.” — Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eProvence\u003c\/i\u003e] blends autobiography, history, polemic and daydream, as Ford evokes a kind of Utopia under the sun… \u003ci\u003eProvence\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great 20th-century celebrations of place.” — \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The expansiveness and exuberance of spirit, the embracing knowledge of the place, that show forth in Ford’s long love affair with Provence will always give this book a joyous life of its own.” —Eudora Welty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fine writer, with traces of a most engaging charlatan.... As in his fiction he writes out of a kind of hilarious depression. The world of today, with its Northern barbarians and its cellophaned foods, is a foul place, but there is always memory—and the book becomes an elaborate pattern of memories, historical and personal, called up not only by Provence, the province, but Provence, the idea.... And the subject, I suppose, is just the good life—as it should be lived by the world.” —Graham Greene\u003cb\u003eFord Madox Ford\u003c\/b\u003e (1873–1939) was a prolific novelist and critic. Also an influential editor, he created the literary journals \u003ci\u003eThe English Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Transatlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, in whose pages he published work by authors such as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Jean Rhys, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and many more. His 1915 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Delbanco\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eStill Life at Eighty: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy Writing Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eIt Is Enough\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233493823717,"sku":"NP9798896230427","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798896230427.jpg?v=1767735186","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/provence-isbn-9798896230427","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}