Kiss & Tell - Hardcover

Botton, Alain De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031214282X ISBN 13: 9780312142827

Publisher: Picador USA, 1996

Synopsis

Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize, the narrator decides to write about the next person who walks into his life, Isabel Rogers

About this title

Review:

"Playful and adroit...a sometimes essayistic, often funny meditation on biographical form which has at its root universal and problematic questions of how we know ourselves, and how we begin to understand others." (The Boston Globe)

"Genuinely funny...perceptive...cheerfully wrought...De Botton's prose is an arm wrestle of erudition with popular culture...His writing is endearing, not in the least remote, and attempts to return value and sophistication to a currency--the ever-Austenesque minuet of courtship and love." (The Times)

"Original, intelligent, and beguiling . . . You will get more than pure pleasure from reading...you may never again look at biography in quite the same way." (The Washington Post Book World)

"This ingenious, and even wise, novel elicits an almost continuous smile." (The New Yorker)

About the Author:

Alain De Botton was born in Switzerland in 1969, educated at Cambridge, and lives in London. He is the author of The Romantic Movement (Picador) and How Proust Can Change Your Life. His first novel, On Love, was published in fifteen countries, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 031214282X
• ISBN 13: 9780312142827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 257