by Peter Mayle · Bantam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553371833
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«Acquired Tastes» is a book of humorous essays by Peter Mayle about luxury and the good life, published by Bantam in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The author, known for A Year in Provence, travels the world in search of life's greatest pleasures: caviar, bespoke shoes, cigars, hotels, servants, and the high cost of keeping a mistress. With irony, he reviews the whims of the rich and offers a particular manual for enjoying the good life, with critiques of Christmas and lawyers.
The essays were original commissions for GQ magazine. The work was originally published in 1991; this Bantam paperback edition is from April 1993.
For readers who enjoy travel essays, humor, and nonfiction about the culture of luxury and consumption.
Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence (1989).
