Kiss and Tell - Hardcover

Botton, Alain De

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ISBN 10: 0333646304 ISBN 13: 9780333646304

Publisher: Macmillan, 1995

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Setting out to relate the life of someone unknown and intimate with their biographer, this novel charts the life of Isabel, a 25-year-old production assistant from Hammersmith. From the author of "Essays in Love", and "The Romantic Movement".

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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.

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