A Gift from Brittany: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the French Countryside
by By Price, Marjorie
Category: Biography & Autobiography , Personal Memoirs

Documents the author's socially controversial decision to travel alone to Paris in 1960, her efforts to develop herself artistically, and her whirlwind marriage to a volatile painter whose impulsive relocation to a rustic hamlet in southern Brittany gave way to the author's friendship with a wise and illiterate elderly neighbor. 30,000 first printing.