The Year of Reading Proust - A Memoir in Real Time

Vintage, 1998. Light creasing and fading to spine, pages yellowing at edges.

THE YEAR OF READING PROUST is love story, travel essay, biography, personal history, mid-life accounting, mother daughter story and essay on the literary life all in one.

Starting with a brilliant description of what it feels like to read Proust, Phyllis Rose moves on to an account of her daily life, inspired by the works of Proust, and written with panache and loving intelligence. Set largely in New York City and Key West, Florida, it gives dazzling glimpses to the lifestyles of the talented and famous.