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Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life - 9780330354912 - 9780330354912
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How Proust Can Change Your Life

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Description for How Proust Can Change Your Life Paperback. 'Dazzling' John Updike Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.

‘What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is wise, amusing as well as stimulating, and presented in so fresh a fashion as to be unique . . . I could not stop, and now much start all over again.’ Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday

‘De Botton not only has a complete understanding of Proust’s life . . . but what is particularly charming about ... Read more

‘It contains more human interest and play of fancy than most fiction . . . de Botton, in emphasizing Proust’s healing, advisory aspects, does us the service of rereading him on our behalf, providing of that vast sacred lake a sweet and lucid distillation.’ John Updike, New Yorker

‘De Botton’s little book is so charming, amusing and sensible that it may even itself change your life.’ Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph

‘This engaging book is one of the most entertaining pieces of literary criticism I have read in a long while.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A very enjoyable book’ Sebastian Faulks

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330354912
SKU
9780330354912
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-6

About Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton is the author of eight bestselling books including The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and Essays in Love. He was born in 1969 and lives in London. For more information, consult: www.alaindebotton.com.

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