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Turn Mill, Turn

The Story of an Anglo's Attempt to Restore a Mill in Southwestern France

by (author) Alan J. Yates

Publisher
Trafford Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 2011
Category
General
  • 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.

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