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Lorenza Foschini
Proust’s Overcoat [EPUB ebook]
The True Story of One Man’s Passion for All Things Proust

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The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting – between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Gu, rin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Gu, rin 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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 144 ● ISBN 9781846274107 ● Translator Eric Karpeles ● Publisher Granta Publications ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2421240 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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