Hilarious, touching, mouth-watering and profound, Steve Hoffman's tale of six months in France is well worth reading.
A Season for That
Lost and found in the other Southern France
Steve Hoffman
Published by Crown New York
ISBN 9780593240281
$30, £25
Autobiography is not an easy genre. To write thousands of words about yourself and the minutiae of your life without sounding navel-gazing, hubristic, self-pitying, boring, or all of the above, requires a witty pen and the mental-emotional agility to relive the most loaded moments of your life with cool detachment. It requires a certain ruthlessness towards oneself at the same...