{"product_id":"9780856464492","title":"Mirabelle Pickers","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Indisputably one of the most invigorating French writers.\"—John Taylor,\u003ci\u003e Paths to Contemporary French Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJacques Réda chooses the height of the plum-picking season to revisit – on an old motorbike – his home town in Lorraine, north-eastern France. The fragrant allure of mirabelles introduces a colourful mix of old acquaintances renewed in these five days and vividly remembered places that have shaped a lifetime’s writing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith its reflections, often whimsical, on the passing of the years, and its varied motifs – the plums, the provincial stillness, the toy soldiers of his childhood, ‘the astonishing existence of others’ first discovered as a love-struck schoolboy – this has few rivals as a portrayal of town life in la France profonde, written with tenderness and humour.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008547766512,"sku":"9780856464492","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856464492_p0.jpg?v=1763826465","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856464492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}