A01=Kate Taylor
Author_Kate Taylor
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family
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historical fiction
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michael cunningham
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099441984
- Weight: 345g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2004
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Marie Prévost is a contemporary Canadian who sets off for Paris to research Proust and escape a failed romance. Sarah Bensimon is a young Parisian Jew who marries into an orthodox family and takes refuge in her kitchen, recreating a kosher version of classic French cuisine. The third woman is madame Jeanne Proust herself, fragments of whose 'diaries' are recreated with impeccably researched detail - as she worries about Marcel, his late-night habits, his diet and his unsuitable friends.
All these strands are brought poignantly together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders and insiders - in this intelligent and beautifully judged debut novel.
Kate Taylor is a Toronto writer and cultural journalist, born in France and raised in Ottowa. She has been a theatre critic at The Globe and Mail, winning awards for her reviews and has also contributed to Canadian Art, Applied Arts and The Arts Today on CBC Radio. In 1989 she published Painters, a biography of Canadian artists written for children. She is currently an arts columnist for The Globe and Mail.
