Proust's Overcoat
Proust's Overcoat
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Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat
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Proust's Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini
The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guérin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Guérin immediately glimpsed the possibility of acquiring the novelist's personal effects, but it would be decades before he finally came to possess the relic he had most coveted: Proust's moth-eaten otter-lined overcoat...
LORENZA FOSCHINI is an Italian journalist, writer and television news anchorwoman, and a former Vatican correspondent. She is the author of Investigation at Millennium's End (Rizzoli), which won the Prix Scanno. Born in Naples, she lives in Rome.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846272721 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846272726 |
| Titre | Proust's Overcoat |
| Auteur | Lorenza Foschini |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Granta Books |
| Année de publication | 2011-11-03 |
| Nombre de pages | 144 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |