This parody of a self-help manual functions like the best of novels by expanding the scope of human acceptance... to include the author. Proust's discerning character studies (intimated with an attention to detail long-mistaken for dilettantist scorn) reveal a compassionate humanist at work. Alain de Botton's Proust selections are recuperated from their reputed frivolity, or rather from our associations that lightness must also mean insignificant.

Sent to alkali-feldspar in Ohio.

Caught in a controlled release from Sarrasine. Thanks so much for the trade and the super-fast shipping! Can't wait to read. :)