Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust by Lorenza Foschini

Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust

Lorenza Foschini

120 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging reflective slow-paced
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Jacques Guérin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris...

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