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The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guérin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Guérin 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...

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

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Paperback / softback by Lorenza Foschini , Eric Karpeles

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The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guérin, and his... Read more

    Publisher: Granta Books
    Publication Date: 03/11/2011
    ISBN13: 9781846272721, 978-1846272721
    ISBN10: 1846272726

    Number of Pages: 144

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guérin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Guérin 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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