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Engrossing memoir of a tortured, complicated woman
This book is not only my favorite autobiography, but it's also one of my favorite books of any genre. Francis Farmer, the infamous movie star who ended up institutionalized, was a tortured woman. This autobiography, which she wrote shortly before her death, is an extremely well-written, brutally honest, and mostly unflattering self-portrait. She tells of her relationship with her controlling and insane mother (who committed her), her unintentional rise to fame in Hollywood (she wanted to be a theater actress, and found Hollywood mostly empty), her emotional breakdowns, run-ins with the law, drinking problems, loveless marriages, and her time spent in a horrific state mental institution. Despite it all, Francis Farmer doesn't seem to feel a lot of self-pity, and she admirably takes responsibility for much of what happened to her. What really makes the book touching is Francis' description of what ultimately saved her: her friendship with Jean Radcliffe (who published the book after Francis died). Toward the end of her life Francis was able to find a lot of love and happiness, mostly due to the unconditional support she received from Jean and her family. This makes the book not only a juicy tale of a fallen Hollywood star and a disturbing memoir of a mental hospital, but an ultimately inspiring story about the healing power of love and friendship.

Five BIG Stars!!!
If you're looking for a book that will keep you interested from cover to cover, never able to put it down, this is the book for you! This is the autobiography of movie star, Frances Farmer, and her demise. It tells of her nightmarish mother (I found myself wanting to hurt her mother more than Frances herself wanted to), her tirades and outlandish temper, her many terrible years in a pit hole ofmental institution where she was mistreated and abused and treated like an animal (literally), her struggle with drug and alcohol abuse and her experience with cancer. Whew! All in one book! There were times when I had to divert my eyes (which made it difficult to read) or set it down because I was ready to slap her mother around and my blood pressure was rising.

The most incredible thing about this story is, I believe, that Frances was fair. By that I mean that she told the story as it was and didn't make herself out to be completely blameless or less "violent" than she was. She told about her outbursts and her stupid behavior made from no-thought decisions. She never said, "Poor me," without adding something more justifiable to the pot.

The reading is incredibly easy. Her style (and that of the one who helped her write it) is very smooth and it seems as though everything she has to say is written in an interest-grabbing way.
So, if you want a good, heart-felt, blood stirring read, I HIGHLY recommend this book. It truly is one of the best I've been lucky enough to find. :o)

good but...
I finished this book a couple of days ago.I enjoyed it.The portions of the book where she tries to raise public awareness of the conditions in asylums have not aged gracefully, they're simply preaching thats irrelevant to my life.Also, near the end of the book she's really gushy about her "turnaround", and she pushes her point way too much.

Besides those two minor complaints, it was the best autobiography I've ever read.

Civil Rights for the Mentally Ill
This is a very important work as it documents the abuses of the mental health industry in America during the time Frances Farmer stayed in a psyciatric institution in the 1940's.It is frightening as Frances tells us that anybody can declare someone is insane, and this person could be brought before an unsympathetic judge and sent to an insane asylum, and once you are declared mentally incompetent, all your civil rights are stripped from you, and you have no say so in the matter.Reading Frances's book, you see that perhaps she wasnt really insane but tired from overwork & in need of rest.By reading this book you will also be shocked of the methods of controlling the mentally ill at that time; endless shock treatments, hydrotherapy, insulin therapy - and you sometimes wonder who the insane people are, Frances or the people who are caring for her.A book like this is important because it chronicles how such a thing could have happened to a person, especially a person like Frances who was gifted & intelligent & had everything going for her.Thankfully, treatment of the mentally ill has much improved since then, but I still hear people say that the mentally ill homeless should be locked up.After reading this book you would have second thoughts about saying such a thing.

Great, but I think the author was an idiot
frances farmer was not insane. She was thrown intoa nut house because her mother was vengefull and hated her daughter for being disobedient(even tough her daughter was 30 and under no obligation to obey her mother). Italso brings to light the fact that anyone could have a family membercommited simply by signing the commotment papres or paing a doctor todeclare you insane. Nowadays its much more difficlt to force someone into amental hospital. but I think that the author could have done something toget her self out of the nut house, and she was such an asshole that nobodywanted to help her. She spent her time getting drunk(when she could havebeen escaping into Canada, but she just wouldnt get in the lifeboat, asthey say. ... Read more

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Will There Really Be A Morning?
I had seen the motion picture several times but never read the book. As a behavioral health clinician, I find myself drawn to the "real world" that isn't seen by all. This book held my attention from beginning to end. It was absolutely heart-breaking to view through this woman's words how not only her parents, and of course the 1930's Hollywood, but last but not least the systems charged with caring for the mentally ill, could have treated her so inhumanely. This is to say, unless she could benefit them. Anyone in the field should read this.

I love this book !!
This is my favorite book ever. I first heard about Frances Farmer in high school. I lived about 10 miles away from the old mental instatute she was in. They have since tore it down but the rubble is still there, and I visited it a few times and became facinated with her life. This book is the best book I have ever read, well almost I also loved Shadowland!! These two books are a must read!!

moving but misleading
It is a definite fact that this book was not written by Frances Farmer at all, but by Jean Ratcliffe, whose close relationship with Farmer was chronicled in the final chapters of this book. For legal reasons subsequent pressings altered the subtitle from "an autobiography by frances farmer" to an "autobiography of frances farmer." It's very disappointing that there really is no definitive biography by or about Farmer.I was deeply moved & horrified every time I read this book, but since Farmer isn't the author, it gives credibility to the many disputes that have arisen regarding the book's veracity.The same can be said about "Shadowlands," on which the 1982 film "Frances" is based. Farmer's sister wrote a biography of Frances entitled "Look Back in Love," but she had as much of an agenda as Ratcliffe may have had, only hers was to exonerate the Farmer family from the beating they'd taken in "Morning" & "Shadowland."Keep this in mind when you read the book(s). Frances Farmer's life is ripe for authentic documentation.This just isn't it.

A Fantastic Book
In Frances Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning?, the firsthand account of her life in the asylum is terrifyingly brought to life. The filth, abuse by the staff, and therapy such as ice baths are clearly recounted. The reader should be warned, the book is graphic. The book recounts her life from childhood to shortly before she passed away in 1970.

Francis
This is my all-time favorite book. I've read it at least once
a year for the last 20 plus years. Miss Farmer was a brilliant
writer. A brutally honest book. Makes you ashamed to be part of
the human race at times. She was a true warrior and I pray she
has found the peace and joy that eluded her in this world.
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Riveting--until you find out it's fiction
"Shadowland" is the book that seems to have introduced most people to the story of Frances Farmer.It is a riveting, disturbing and visceral read--until you find out that it is in large part "fictionalized," as its author admitted himself in the copyright infringement case he brought against the producers of the feature film "Frances," which used his book as source material (despite the producers' denials)."Shadowland" is so rife with factual errors and outright fabrications (including the lobotomy, which never happened to the real Frances) that it would be comical if it weren't such an insult to the memory of this valiant woman who struggled so hard to regain her emotional equilibrium.The reviews below which claim "Shadowland" is thoroughly factual are simply wrong--the list of outright factual errors in "Shadowland" is truly mind-boggling, starting, for example, with her birthyear which Arnold incorrectly states as 1914 (Frances was born in 1913).Unfortunately, Frances' ghost-written autobiography "Will There Really Be A Morning", despite the well-intentioned review below, is also filled with errors and fabrications, which its author Jean Ratcliffe was at least honorable enough to admit she had sensationalized in order to facilitate a movie sale.The best biography of Frances available is the self-published one by her sister Edith Farmer Elliot, entitled "Look Back in Love."For an in-depth look at the many errors and "fictionalizations" in "Shadowland," use a search engine and search for the web article "Shedding Light on Shadowland."The truth about this incredible woman deserves to be known.

Frances Farmer gets raped again
I cannot believe that a total stranger, a man who never even met his subject, is claiming to know better than she herself what happened to her and why. Her autobiography was organized by her beloved friend, Jean, as Frances died while she was still writing, and Jean also helped editing as Frances wrote right up until her death. Hence the book just stops, rather than ends, but that doesn't mean that she didn't write it. Does the "reviewer" here really imagine that a family like Jean's would be able to just come up with the horrors Frances experienced, when they, a genteel New England family had never been inside a state institution, let alone been left in one for 8 years, naked, starving, desperate, and then finally hopeless? My mother was in one, and I can tell you, the stories are not exaggerated, though it may comfort you to believe that they are.

External facts, dates, places, performances, extrapolations, are not truth. It is an insult to the memory of Frances Farmer to make another person the "expert" about her--if this man had anything to do with the film that was made (which featured an extraordinary performance by Jessica Lange, but was so full of errors as to be unrecognizable as Farmer's life), then he is further invalidated.

"Will there really be a morning?" was unflinching and difficult to read, but never did Frances lapse into self-pity. Her work to become human was incredibly hard, but she did it, through the love of others, not through a therapist or a group of "survivors," nor any other external force except love. Acceptance. I will always choose to believe Frances' version of her life over anyone else's, however fascinated that person is and however much running around the globe he does, dogging her footsteps, as though he can find her somewhere there on the map he has drawn. It was that very thing which drove her into rages--she could not bear that to act had come to mean Hollywood, and therefore had come to mean that everyone's opinion but hers counted. She fought and fought and fought against that, as she'd had to do at home against her monster of a mother.

And for those readers who here have preferred his distance to her intimacy--her often uncomfortable intimacy--I can only say that it is yet another violation of her sovreignty over her own life to take another person's interpretation of it and declare it more believable. All of her life, she fought for the right to define herself as she was, not as others saw her or wanted her to be, and yet this page is full of writings by people who seem to have missed that point completely and decided to give someone else the final word over a woman he saw first on that thing she despised most: a movie screen. I cannot think of anything she'd hate more than that.

Shadowlands
I found my copy in a used bookstore. I can't believe anyone would want to give it up. What an amazing story. It should still be in print, as people still talk about Frances Farmer. I liked this even better than "Will There Really Be A Morning" because it went deeper into her life, and more accurately, since the "autobiography" was in fact written by Frances's friend after her death. I had some trouble believing some of the incidents actually happened, or if they were exaggerated. "Shadowlands" talks about her life before and after Hollywood (as well as the Steilicomb years). However, the author writes about the "This Is Your Life" episode: "seeing it was a truly devestating experience", and says Frances barely uttered a word and was zoned out. We must have seen different shows. I saw that episode too and she looked perfectly fine to me, and she DID speak a lot. Anyway, good book.

Frances Farmer:Shadowland by William Arnold
This book should be on the MUST READ list of all students in any branch of the human service field.Although blunt at times it remains factual through-out.The author was good about letting fact speak for itself and not falling prey to the "want" to embellish in order to make a great drama.You start out thinking that the events of Frances Farmer's life could never happen - at least not with the ease at which they did.And they centainly could not continue.The book answers many questions.But they may not be what you expect.
I am not one who reads often but I had a hard time staying away from this one.If you are one who has a hard time concentrating for long periods of time you can stop anywhere and pick up the book again; you do not need to wait until the end of a chapter.I have not seen the move that was made from the book called "Frances", which I understand is quite good also, and I am not sure I would want to take the chance on spoiling an excellent book.

Great book...worth your time
I read this book having first read the powerful book (please read this book), "Will There Really Be A Morning?".A lot of the questions I was left with following my completion of that book were answered byreading "Shadowland" and I think it is a well-written book thatis worth the time to find and read.Frances Farmer's story is tragic andthought-provoking and Arnold's book gives a comprehensive look at Francestriumphs and tragedies.I would recommend reading "Will There ReallyBe A Morning?" by Frances Farmer (partially) (both books are easy tofind on Ebay) before reading this book. It will make the story moreinteresting and easier to follow. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Land Use Policy, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This article considers the effectiveness of the current farm set-up policy in France relative to a direct payments policy. Specifically, using information on French specialist cereal farms from the French Farm Accountancy Data Network, the current policy of interest rate subsidies plus direct payments is simulated and compared with a direct payments scheme in the presence of asymmetric information. The results indicate that the budgetary cost of a direct payment scheme when information is perfect, i.e. the government knows which farms would set up without subsidy, is substantially less than the subsidy cost of the simulation of the current policy. However, the results show that the presence of an imperfect information increases the costs of a direct payments policy significantly with total costs, in this case, substantially exceeding those for the current policy simulation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 480 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The good earth: how farmers in the heartland can help solve global warming.(View From NRDC)
Author: Frances Beinecke
Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28Issue: 4Page: 4(1)

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Tour the markets of seven towns while exploring the role of the market in Provencal life, plus receive dozens of insider tips as the authors focus on food, present information on regional and seasonal specialties (with recipes in every chapter), wines, restaurants, and picnic spots. ... Read more

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Poor service -- very poor follow-up.
As part of a $250.00 order, I ordered the Michelin France Provence map in English, and the Michelin 2006 Red Guide France: Hotels and Restaurants in English - both Items they sent me were written in French, which are of no value to me.I requested a shipping label to return the map and the book and asked they send me the English versions. The Amazon Outsourcing Desk in India refused both request.I requested an American Amazon Customer Service Manager contact me on this Issue.That has never happened.I am also being asked my Satisfaction on a 3d book - Markets Of Provence - which they never sent me.The remainder of my $250.00 order were the English Versions, as ordered.My Overall Satisfaction:Well below the 1 Star shown.Actual Satisfaction "F Minus" for all departments in Amazon and far less for their very poor Customer Service and lack of ethical follow-up for their mistake.

Wonderful!A tour of Provence even when you can't travel.
This book is a lovely guide for those who plan to travel to Provence as well as those who cannot.It is lovely - just lovely.Beautiful photographs, wonderful insights and descriptions off the beaten path.I high recommend this book.

Perfect For Trips Or Just Some Dreaming...........
If you or anyone you know plans a trip to Provence, make sure this book goes too! It is an excellent guide to the wonderful Provencal outdoor markets. If you want to experience Provence at its finest, this is one ofthe very best guide.

Full of gorgeous color photos, this is a beautifulas well as helpful book.After the trip, it is wonderful to go through thebook again and savor all of the great memories. For the finest produce,cheese and other delights of the South, this book is a must have!

you can almost smell the lavender
This excellent book was in the kitchen of a house we rented a couple of years ago in Caromb, northeast of Avignon.Not only were the lists of daily markets invaluable, but the recipe for quails with spring onions ontapenade-covered croutons, for example, allowed us to make good use oflocal products.(With all those fabulous tapenades available at market, Idid not make my own, as the recipe suggests.)Patricia Wells'sintroduction reminds you of her own invaluable guides to food throughoutFrance, and her inspiration and influence are apparent throughout the book-- the level of knowledge, enthusiasm, and appreciation for the wonders ofProvençal food is engaging and contagious.The illustrations remind you ofplaces you've been away from too long and get the juices flowing for areturn visit for markets you missed the last time.

Absolutely marvelous!
My cousin and I just returned from a 9-day trip to Southern France. Our highlights can all be found in this wonderful book. We met Henri Tomas and taste-tested and approved the Galette specialty of the house; taste-tested and brought back many bottles of wine from Chateau La Canorgue. We followedthe suggestions and pretty much made the rounds to all of the sites. Ourlast evening in Provence, we sampled the goat cheese, bread from HenriTomas' patisserie and the wine...we added our own Picheline olives andfresh market tomatoes to make our meal complete...what a last supper tohave in France. Joy of Life, Indeed!!!!!! Thanks for making our trip a10++++++. ... Read more

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This book is Wonderful
I thought that this book was so great! I read it for graduate French History and it was the best supplemental piece thus far in my sseries on French history. I suggest reading A Tale of Two Cities before this book. If you appreciate the beauty of France's countryside and want to understand the difficulties and individuality of a very strong French woman, do read this book.

Interesting portrait of one 20th-century life
This was a quick read (I finished it during a plane ride across the Pacific). Carles was born in 1900 in a peasant hamlet in one of the poorest regions of Alpine France. Rare for her time and place, she gained literacy and was successful enough in her studies to gain a teacher's license. She wrote her stories into notebooks for decades and, when the time came, began fashioning their contents into an autobiography. As sickness overtook her, she opted to tell her tale to a publisher, who worked the tapes and her books into this story.

It's worth reading. I've read bits and pieces of the history of isolated, medieval Alpine communities, mostly in books on mountain-climbing; this is a glimpse into the end days of such a community, with its harsh lifestyle, old traditions, and superstitions of its inhabitants. Carles was a woman who challenged many of those traditions and superstitions as she grew and learned.

Toward its end the book bogs down into political statements. Carles married a remarkably free-thinking man for the late 1920s/early 1930s, and his views meshed nicely with hers--pacifism honed by the loss of her brothers to the trenches of World War I and a socialist bent that wants to see the state offer real aid to poor communities like hers. I could have done without her (unrealistic in my opinion) stirring proclamations on the need for a four-hour work day and a return to a simple rural lifestyle. But this doesn't take away from the value of the book on the whole. It's an entertaining look at a strong woman who saw the twentieth century pass in a place that rarely gets written about.

A Trip Into the Past
This is one of the best autobiographies I have ever read. Mme. Carles has so much to say about her way of life and her countrymen. Her relationship with her family is described touchingly and well. Her peasant background reminds me of my grandparents' farming lives in the southern U.S. As I read, it seemed strange to me that someone who depended on owning and working land could become a leftist. However, in view of Mrs. Carles' descriptions of the various governments which have ruled France, I can see how someone could be desperate (and naive) enough to turn to anti-capitalism. It helped me understand the political climate in Europe better, but that is not why I recommend the book. It is simply a lovely description of how peasants lived and thought for many centuries. It has a sense of timelessness, of life before the frantic changes technology has brought over the last hundred years. Just take a large grain of salt when you read Carles' economic recommendations.

A read for everyone
Emilie Carles started out her life the same as many of her neighbors in her predominantly peasant town in France. Unlike her neighbors, she went on to receive an education and break out of generations of grinding poverty and ingnorance. The very fact that she is able to chronicle her most unusual life is a testament to the power of the human spirit. Everyone interested in issues of class and gender influencing biography should read this excellent memoir.

Quaint escape from the modern world
This is one woman's story of life in an age and place which has disappeared over the course of a century.The voice is powerful, although the translation from the French could have been better.Carles truly makes you feel what it was like to be a young peasant woman.This isn't sentimental trash or dry history.It's a very down to earth tale of "this is what it was like for me." ... Read more

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Carles autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that emerged to take its place. Her account reflects the turbulent history of the twentieth century from the viewpoints of the many roles she played in it--teacher, farmer, feminist, pacifist, and political activist. ... Read more

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Emilie Carles is someone for all to admire, or even idolize
I read this book quite a few years ago and it remains fresh in my memory.There was nothing about it I did not totally love, especially Emilie.I was sad to see that there was only one other review of this excellent book. Everyone should read it, it is absolutely beautiful.

Wonderful look at life of French mountain girlin 1900s.
This is a book about endemic people, who, like plants, are rooted to a certain time and place with a specificity that is hard for a lot of us alive today to know. Emilie's tale of her tough life in the ruggedmountains near Italy is told with such a wonderful conversational anderror-laden english - completely engaging and romantic, with photos ofpeople in the story she is telling.I read it while at my best friendshouse in Grenoble, and then we drove to the very town in the alps thatEmilie grew up in. It was like a time capsule except for the cross countryski inns that have popped up and started a commercialization process. Butthe story she tells is of people who are like certain french cheeses madein a certain valley, that if you went over the mountain and into the nextvalley, that cheese could not be replicated. This is a great story and youwill fall in love with it if you are someone who is nostalgic for a timeand place when harsh weather, rugged mountains, and lots of work to do athome made a journey of 20 miles felt like it took you to another planet. ... Read more

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When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the couple embark on an adventure that brings them in contact with the charming countryside of Provence, its querulous personalities, petty bureaucracies, and extraordinary wildlife. From the glamour of Cannes and the Isles of L&eacuterins to the charm of her own small plot of land-which she transforms from overgrown weeds into a thriving farm-Drinkwater triumphantly relates how she realized her dream of a peaceful, meaningful life.

"A fantasy come true, as it will be for many of the readers who yearn to experience the magic of southern France." (Austin Chronicle)

"Good-humored and well written." (The Washington Post Book World)

"Following [Drinkwater's] engaging story is like driving the hairpin turns that climb the hills above the French Riviera: the views are breathtaking, the blind curves frightening, and the safe arrival to the top a joyous relief." (Library Journal) ... Read more

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Delightful Read
The other night I was listening to an audio commentary which featured Robert Hardy and Carol Drinkwater. During the commentary Carol mentioned she had authored a series of books about she and her husbands experience rennovating/operating an olive farm in the south of France. Intriged by what Carol had said I checked the first book "The Olive Farm" out from the public library and began to read. First of all I must say the book is a delightful read. Carol has the ability to communicate on paper in the form of easy conversation, as two friends would have over a cup of tea. You will laugh and cry along with Carol as you read her story of restoring "Appassionata" to its former glory. I would love to see the BBC make a television series out of her books, they are a total delight!

Helen Harriot goes south
This is a wonderful book. If you have ever dreamed of running off and creating a brand new life filled with love, laughter and more than a few bumps along the way then this is a book that you'll love. In fact, I recommend all her books-they are that good.

Lyrical Tribute to Life in Cannes
The Olive Farm is a well-executed memoir in the fashion of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence.In it, actress Carol Drinkwater and her fiance, Michel, a film producer, impetuously purchase a rundown olive farm in the south of France and begin the process of restoring it to comfort and fecundity.

This memoir will not disappoint-- Carol and her fiance face the difficulties of limited finances, needed repairs well in excess of initial estimates, and frustrations with the local workforce.All of these, of course, are transcended by the satisfactions of nursing the olive trees into production and the triumphs of beginning to restore the farmhouse to its previous grandeur.

This ground has been trodden before, but Carol Drinkwater tells her tale engagingly, drawing likable portraits of her family, friends and neighbors in Cannes.Sit back, relax and enjoy the journey to Drinkwater's Cannes.

The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France
Ms Drinkwater writes a uncomplicated and enjoyable tale of her adventures in old houses,the French, olive oil and love. She brings the same pleasantness to the written word that she did to the small screen in All Creatures Great and Small.

More than just the South of France and Olives!
Initially, this book caught my eye because the story takes place in the French town where I was born and raised.
While I found interesting and informative to re-discover my hometown through the eyes of the writer, I was totally captured by the many sides to this book: the story about a foreigner adapting to a different culture (which I can relateto, having made my home in the USA...), a international love story between a French man and an English woman (I am French and my husband American), the author learning to become a stepmother, the huge task of nursing back to life a beautiful property which had been abandoned by its previous owners....
There are lots of stories within the main story... All so well written, I lost track of time a lot while reading this book...
I also, through her descriptions, recognized some of the characters!! (small town... VERY small town!!)
It was a true feast and I am ordering the sequel as soon as I am finished writing this review!!
Get this book, it will literally absorb you into its own world... Getting a glimpse of the South of France without leaving your armchair should be enticing enough... I could smell the lavender in the breeze, hear the ciccadas, and almost taste the local foods I so miss here in the US...
I recommend it to you all without any reservation!

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The widespread development of neocorporatism--a process in which certain interest groups derive power from their privileged relationship with the state and formal participation in public policy-making rather than through traditional lobbying or pressure tactics--has recently attracted considerable scholarly attention.This penetrating study focuses on the emergence of the most powerful agricultural union (FNSEA) as a force in French politics, the trends toward corporatization and decorporatization of the agricultural sector, and the governmental efforts at reform and decorporatization in Mitterrand's France. Keeler introduces a new, sector-oriented theoretical framework suitable for analyzing the corporatization process in any democratic polity.The book also offers a general model of the "corporatist imperative" in the agricultural sector of democratic polities and tests this model with comparative case studies of the United States, Britain, Italy, and West Germany. ... Read more