{"product_id":"how-proust-can-change-your-life-1","title":"How Proust Can Change Your Life","description":"A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s \"delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term\" (The New York Times).\n\nAlain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.\n\nWho would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and unclichéd articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from between the lines of his work.\n\nHere is Proust as we have never seen or read him before: witty, intelligent, pragmatic. He might well change your life.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679779159\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 31UIET00009X_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:De Botton, Alain\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43374785331261,"sku":"31UIET00009X_ns","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0679779159-0_d1613924-8911-4879-82d4-7586df79236d.jpg?v=1784598372","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/how-proust-can-change-your-life-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}