Crazy About the French Riviera is a carefully curated selection from four earlier books by Arnold Verhoeven.
Hotelier, writer and long-time resident of Cannes, Verhoeven observes the French Riviera from the inside — with affection, irony and an unflinching eye for its contradictions.
Over more than two decades, he lived and worked among hoteliers, bureaucrats, eccentrics, artists, officials and visitors who came for the glamour but stayed for very different reasons. These short narratives move effortlessly between humour and unease, elegance and decay, beauty and absurdity.
This book is not a guide, nor a memoir in the traditional sense. It is a collection of lived moments — sometimes light, sometimes unsettling — that together form a portrait of life on the Riviera as it is rarely described: from close by, and without illusion.
Wil je een kortere versie, of juist eentje met iets meer ironische scherpte, dan maak ik die zo voor je.
