The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781582430553)

A brilliant and original memoir of midlife-a writing life, a reading life, a woman's life-by the distinguished author of Parallel Lives

Phyllis Rose, a biographer, essayist, and literary critic, finally got around to reading Proust in middle age. As Rose learned, you don't have to live through an unhappy childhood or celebrity adulthood to write an autobiography. You just need patience, candor, and a close-to-scientific passion for truth. She begins to learn how to navigate the intricacies of Proust's novels, at the same time reflecting on the course of her own life.

With striking honesty, Rose writes about marriage, friendship, childbirth, and her own mortality. As she moves from daily experience to what she's read and back again, she illuminates how the close reading of her own life reveals truths for the rest of us and how such a subtle celebration of books can help us live.

Author: Phyllis Rose
ISBN-10: 1582430551
ISBN-13: 9781582430553
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 12/23/1999
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.49w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/13/2000 pg. 32
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 17