{"product_id":"how-proust-can-change-your-life-paperback","title":"How Proust Can Change Your Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlain de Botton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bestselling author draws on the work of one of history's most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that's \"delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical \u003ci\u003eHow Proust Can Change Your Life.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and unclichéd articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from between the lines of his work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is Proust as we have never seen or read him before: witty, intelligent, pragmatic. He might well change your life.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. \u003cbr\u003eWho would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from between the lines of his work. \u003cbr\u003eHere is Proust as we have never seen or read him before: witty, intelligent, pragmatic. He might well change your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eALAIN DE BOTTON was born in 1969. He is the internationally heralded author of the novels \u003ci\u003eOn Love, The Romantic Movement, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKiss and Tell; \u003c\/i\u003ehis work has been translated into sixteen languages. He lives in Washington, D.C., and London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.98 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756919226656,"sku":"9780679779155","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/79986c23a4fe1a5cc619cc6716fec954.webp?v=1780089204","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-proust-can-change-your-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}