From the acclaimed author of "Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages", comes an exhilarating memoir in which, as in David Denby's "Great Books", a reexamination of a classic lends insight to our lives today. An extraordinary literary experience full of wit and humor, "The Year of Reading Proust" reinvents the genre of memoir and promises to become a classic of autobiographical literature.
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From the acclaimed author of "Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages", comes an exhilarating memoir in which, as in David Denby's "Great Books", a reexamination of a classic lends insight to our lives today. An extraordinary literary experience full of wit and humor, "The Year of Reading Proust" reinvents the genre of memoir and promises to become a classic of autobiographical literature.
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Very Good. Appears unread. Binding is tight and square, no creasing. Covers have minor shelf wear. Small moisture stain to lower right corner. Ships USPS with tracking number. We ship daily from Tennessee!
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This is a lovely book about reading, about Proust, about Key West. Salman Rushdie even makes an appearance, during his under cover days, not necessarily a welcome appearance, but there he is, with body guards at a dinner party in Key West.