{"product_id":"letters-to-the-lady-upstairs-9780008340063","title":"Letters to the Lady Upstairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A collection of letters to the neighbours about noise would seem unpromising material for a book, unless they were written by Marcel Proust, who was so sweet, kind, funny and charming, that his letters are a delightful surprise’ ***** Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A delight. This slim book is special, not only because it reveals details of Proust’s life, but also in its simple celebration of friendship’ Observer\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Translator Lydia Davis … reveals Proust’s brilliant, darting mind at work in an unfettered, conversational manner’ Arts Desk\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Nearly as famous as Marcel Proust’s madeleine is his cork-lined bedroom at 102 Boulevard Haussmann, where he lay in bed and wrote most of A la Recherche du temps perdu …Letters to the Lady Upstairs gives us an oblique portrait of this closeted life.’ Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A haunting portrait of a friendship both evanescent and intense between two people who lived within earshot of one another, separated only by a few inches of plaster and floorboard, but who scarcely ever met’ New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Full of wit and playful decorum’ New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A trove of charming correspondence from literature’s most famous “noise phobic”’ Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083803259223,"sku":"9780008340063","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780008340063.jpg?v=1762203873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/letters-to-the-lady-upstairs-9780008340063","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}