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My Fathers Glory and My Mothers Castle: Childhood Memories; Pagnol, Marcel; Rita Barisse (translated by); Alice Waters (foreword); North Point Press, San Francisco (1986); 1st/1st; VG/VG; SIGNED, dated(10/7/91) by restaurateur Alice Waters; NOT Print on Demand, NOT Bookclub, NOT Ex-Lib; HB-Brown w/gilt lettering to front + spine, no apparent edgewear; DJ-Multi-colored design + lettering to all sides, no apparent edgewear, brodart protected; 442pp- Not price-clipped, clean, flat.

"Fifteen years ago, when I was making plans to open a café and restaurant in Berkeley, my friend Tom Luddy took me to see a Marcel Pagnol retrospective at the old Surf Theater in San Francisco. We went every night and saw about half the movies Pagnol made during his long career:The Baker's Wife and Harvest, taken from novels by Jean Giono, and Pagnol's own Marseille trilogy—Marius, Fanny, and César. Every one of these movies about life in the south of France fifty years ago radiated with love for people, and respect for the earth. Every movie made me cry. My partners and I decided to name our new restaurant after the widower Panisse, a compassionate, placid, and slightly ridiculous marine outfitter in the Marseille trilogy, so as to evoke the sunny good feelings of another world that contained so much that was incomplete or missing in our own—the simple wholesome good food of Provence, the atmosphere of tolerant camaraderie and great lifelong friendships, and a respect for both the old folks and their pleasures and for the young and their passions. Four years later, when our partnership incorporated itself, we immodestly took the name Pagnol et Cie., Inc., to reaffirm our desire of re-creating an ideal reality where life and work were inseparable and the daily pace left you time for the afternoon anisette or the restorative game of pétanque, and where eating together nourished the spirit as well and the body—since the food was raised, harvested, hunted, fished, and gathered by people sustaining and sustained by each other and by the earth itself".- Alice Waters, from the forward

Marcel Pagnols childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by Jean Renoir "the leading film artist of his age," Pagnol is best known for such films as The Bakers Wife, Harvest, Fanny, and Topaze, as well as the screen adaptations of his novels Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs (North Point, 1988). But he never forgot the magic of his Provencal childhood, and when he set his memories to paper late in life the result was a great new success. My Fathers Glory and My Mothers Castle appeared on the scene like a fresh breeze, captivating readers with its sweet enchantments. Pagnol recalls his days hunting and fishing in the hill country, his jaunts about Marseilles, his schoolboy diversions, and above all his family: his anticlerical father and sanctimonious uncle, his mild and beautiful mother, and many others. This bright and lively book sparkles with the charm and magic that were Marcel Pagnols own.- Publisher

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