New York: Alfred A. Knopf, June 1996. Hardcover. Second Printing Before Publication (stated). Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Cover clean and bright. Dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 303 pages.

Bennett is an English expatriate living in France with a champagne taste and a beer bankroll. Happy-go-lucky and a bit roguish, he places an ad in the International Herald Tribune offering his services -- any services. He pursues a response from a wealthy Englishman named Julian Poe who has developed a means of producing truffles and is close to cornering the immensely lucrative truffle market. Bennett signs on and finds himself in Monaco, where he is able to live in a style to which he has always wished to become accustomed. Soon the Sicilian and Corsican Mafiosi intrude and Bennett is joined by the beautiful and experienced (in all ways) Anna. Ham-fisted goons, gendarmes working at cross purposes, French village busybodies, and an order of monks dedicated to the god Bacchus all play a role in the surprising, and more than a little satisfying, denouement.

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Peter Mayle spent fifteen years in the advertising business, first as a copywriter and then as a reluctant executive, before escaping Madison Avenue in 1975 to write educational books for children. In 1990, Mr. Mayle published A Year in Provence , which became an international bestseller. He is also the author of Toujours Provence , Hotel Pastis , A Dog's Life , Encore Provence and Chasing Cezanne . In addition to writing books which have been translated into more than twenty languages, Mayle has contributed to the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Independent, GQ and Esquire. He and his wife and two dogs live in the South of France.

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Bookseller: Books of the World (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000000214
Title: Anything Considered
Author: Peter Mayle
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second Printing Before Publication
ISBN 10: 0679441239
ISBN 13: 9780679441236
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: June 1996
Keywords: fiction, humor, British, expatraites, truffles, Monaco, France
Bookseller catalogs: Cookbooks; Fiction; Europe; Humor, Comedy, Satire, Funny stuff; Britain; France;
Size: 8vo

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