by Peter Mayle · Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9780679455110
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«Chasing Cézanne» is the mystery and humour novel by Peter Mayle, published by Knopf in hardback (295 pages, in English).
Photographer Andre Kelly works for Decorating Quarterly magazine in the south of France when he witnesses a Cézanne painting being loaded into a plumber's van. His curiosity drags him into an art scam that winds through galleries, collectors' homes and select restaurants, with stops in the Bahamas, England and New York.
First American edition of 1997; the eleventh printing was made in September 1997.
A read for those seeking light intrigue in the art world, with humour and French gastronomic settings.
Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence (1989).
