Title: We expected more from Mayle
Product review: "Encore Provence" is a letdown in the wake of Mayle's first 2 books on Provence. It's little more than a potpourri of events from his previous work. The only thread they have in common is France. A single entertaining episode involves a playboy butcher who went to Provence and seduced local wives. Their irate husbands murdered the meatcutter. And the whole thing went down long before Mayle even went to Provence. Finally, even though Mayle pulled his punches this time (perhaps to atone for past slights), he wrote with two pens. True to form, he was critical of the yokels in Provence. Yet, he managed to play it up as a paradise (especially compared to the USA) from which he'll never want to leave. It all seems as though Mayle wanted simply to crank out another book.
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