Crazy about the French Riviera (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789090418391)

Crazy about the French Riviera is not a guidebook, nor a glossy celebration of sun and glamour.

It is a collection of sharp, often disarming, but always human stories.

Drawing on many years of living and working on the French Riviera, Arnold Verhoeven observes life just beyond the postcard image: the quiet absurdities, the cultural misunderstandings, the charm and the friction of being an outsider in one of Europe's most mythologised regions.

With dry humour and a keen eye for detail, he writes about encounters, places and moments that reveal a Riviera rarely described, less polished, more revealing, and ultimately more real.