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Clara Reads Proust
Stephane Carlier
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Description for Clara Reads Proust
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'An elegant and quietly lyrical charting of a life changed by books' Irish Times
A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, peppered with a cast of quirky characters and a unique heroine.
Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. And now Madame Lévy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara can’t help but wonder if there’s more to life than this . . .
Everything changes when a ... Read more
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Publication date
2024
Publisher
Gallic Books (Ingrams)
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781913547738
SKU
9781913547738
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Stephane Carlier
Stéphane Carlier was born in 1971 in Argenteuil, France. Clara Reads Proust is his eighth novel and the first to be translated into English.Polly Mackintosh is an editor and a translator from French. She has translated the work of Alain Ducasse, Antoine Laurain and early French feminist Marie-Louise Gagneur, amongst others. She currently lives in London.
Reviews for Clara Reads Proust
'[A] gently diverting tale of inspiration, bold re-inventions and the richness that great literature is a gateway to.' Daily Mail 'Clara’s understanding of Proust is profound and if you wanted to know why you should read him and, perhaps more important, how, then Clara’s observations are perfect.' Sunday Times 'Elegant and quietly lyrical . . . captures the quirks and ... Read more