Paperback (03 Nov 2011)
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The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Gu�rin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Gu�rin 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...
Granta Books is one of the most independent-minded and prestigious literary publishers in the UK. The company publishes around 25 new titles a year, both literary fiction and upmarket non-fiction, and provides authors with the intimacy of a small, passionate and creative team while consistently punching above its weight in review coverage, prizes, cultural impact and sales.
| ISBN: | 9781846272721 |
| Publisher: | Granta Publications |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Pub date: | 03 Nov 2011 |
| DEWEY: | 843.912 |
| DEWEY edition: | 23 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 128 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Height: | 197mm |
| Width: | 131mm |
| Spine width: | 10mm |
