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A Tale of Two Valleys
- Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma
- Narrateur(s): Michael Cerveris
- Durée: 6 h et 49 min
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Description
Deutschman found that on the weekends the wine country was like a bunch of gracious hosts smiling upon their guests, but during the week the families feuded with each other and their neighbors like the Hatfields and McCoys. Napa was a comically exclusive club where the super-rich fought desperately to get in. Sonoma's colorful free spirits and iconoclasts were wary of their bohemia becoming the next playground for the rapacious elite. So, led by a former taxicab driver and wine-grape picker, a cheese merchant and an artist who lived in a barn surrounded by wild peacocks, they formed a populist revolt to seize power and repel the rich invaders.
Deutschman's cast of characters brims with eccentrics, egomaniacs and a mysterious man in black who crashed the elegant Napa Valley Wine Auction before proceeding to pay a half-million dollars for a single bottle. What develops is nothing less than a battle for the good life, a clash between old and new, the struggle for the soul of one of America's last bits of paradise.
A Tale of Two Valleys is also available in hardcover from Broadway Books.
(P)2002 Random House, Inc.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Rarely has such an exclusive world and its inhabitants been made so accessible." (Publishers Weekly)