French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
Algonquin Books: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Association copy, with signed inscription by the author. Also included is a one-page handwritten letter by the author. Octavo, 203 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original red cloth over tan boards. Richard Goodman’s French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France is a warmly observed literary memoir of travel, gardening, and village life in Provence. Written from the perspective of an American living for a time in the South of France, the book follows Goodman as he cultivates a garden and gradually becomes absorbed into the rhythms of rural French life—the soil, the weather, the local customs, and the people around him. More than a simple gardening book, it is a reflective account of place, patience, labor, and belonging, with appeal for readers of Provence travel writing, expatriate memoirs, nature writing, and literary books about gardens. Jacket with some wrinkles, slight shelf wear, else in very good condition. Item #317
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