A Season for That – book review
Hilarious, touching, mouth-watering and profound, Steve Hoffman's tale of six months in France is well worth reading.
Monday, 16 September 2024

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...
Become a member to view this article and thousands more!
Premium
- 15,427 featured articles
- 273,885 wine reviews
- Maps from The World Atlas of Wine, 8th edition (RRP £50)
- The Oxford Companion to Wine, 5th edition (RRP £50)
- Members’ forum
Monthly
Annually
£99
Save 10% with annual membership
Professional
- 15,427 featured articles
- 273,885 wine reviews
- Maps from The World Atlas of Wine, 8th edition (RRP £50)
- The Oxford Companion to Wine, 5th edition (RRP £50)
- Members’ forum
- Commercial use of our Tasting Notes
£199
per year