Proust's Overcoat
The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
1st Edition
Published on 3. November 2011
144 pages
978-1-84627-410-7 (ISBN)
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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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Lorenza Foschini
Proust'S Overcoat
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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.
