Proust's Overcoat The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
Heftet /
2011
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781846272721
Publisert
2011-11-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Vekt
111 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144
Forfatter
Oversetter
Om bidragsyterne
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.
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...
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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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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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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781846272721
Publisert
2011-11-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Vekt
111 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144
Forfatter
Oversetter