Turn Mill, Turn
The Story of an Anglo's Attempt to Restore a Mill in Southwestern France
- Publisher
- Trafford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2011
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781426959042
- Publish Date
- Jan 2011
- List Price
- $15.5
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Description
Long immersed in the unforgiving winters of Canada, the author dreamed of restoring an old water mill in Southwestern France. The dream turned sour, faced with escalating costs and procrastination by French tradesmen. In the process, Yates, fluent in French, learned about petty provincialism in the life of a tiny rural village. No Year in Provence was this but closer to the wry and often bitter classic satire Clochemerle-les-bains. Yates salts his anecdotes with wry portraits of the quaint local life, as well as with meridional dialect and hilarious poems that illustrate his rural themes.
About the author
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Alan J. Yates moved to Canada in his late teens, where he pursued a career in journalism and broadcasting, much of it with the CBC. He also pursued an academic path on the side, with graduate degrees in Communications from McGill University in Montreal and taught Communications at the University of Ottawa. Now retired, he lives in Ottawa.