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by Rob Silverstone
Pages: 232
Imprint: Vanguard Press
ISBN: 1843861631
Follow the trail of our good mule as he discovers the town of Rouen. A place of Gothic splendour and cobbled streets unchanged through the passage of time. Discover Normandy as the cradle of Impressionist art, home to Maupassant and Madame Bovary. Sit at the Café Metropole as Sartre and De Beauvoir did before you. Glide through the apple blossom in countryside still peopled by artisan farmers, producers of sumptuous cheeses and calvados, confit de canard and boudin blanc. Follow the journey of an Englishman as he sets up a restaurant beside the little river Robec, in the old dyers quarter of town. Experience his encounters with a Kafkaesque state and the deeply mistrustful Rouennais. Set foot in every untrodden corner of Upper Normandy. A little local history tour that is good enough to eat.
Book website
Booksigning at:
Brighton
1 May 2004
Librairie Art
Rouen, France.
3rd June 2005
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