Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life |
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Editor:
| Carter, Graydon |
Illustrator:
| Risko, |
ISBN: | 978-1-60529-595-4 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2009 |
Publisher: | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
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Imprint: | Rodale Books |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $23.99 |
Book Description:
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An intimate look into the inner lives of our most prominent cultural figures- pulled from the celebrated Proust Questionnaire page in
Vanity Fair magazine. The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by contemporaries of Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that an individual's answers reveal his true nature. Illustrated by Risko,
Vanity Fair's Proust Q
uestionnaire Edited by Graydon Carter and...
More DescriptionAn intimate look into the inner lives of our most prominent cultural figures- pulled from the celebrated Proust Questionnaire page in Vanity Fair magazine. The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by contemporaries of Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that an individual's answers reveal his true nature. Illustrated by Risko, Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire Edited by Graydon Carter and Illustrated by Risko, brings together the responses of 101 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie and Norman Mailer, from Martin Scorsese and Shirley MacLaine to Aretha Franklin and Eric Clapton. Candid, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating,