The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time

10 best books like The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time (Phyllis Rose): Park Avenue Summer, Laura & Emma, The Gastronomical Me, You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir, The Town in Bloom, Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon, The Lady and the Little Fox Fur, Map of Another Town, Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French, The Gypsy Madonna

Park Avenue Summer

Author	Renee Rosen
ISBN	1101991143

Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief--Helen Gurley Brown--shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off limits...

New York City is filled with...

Laura & Emma

Author	Kate Greathead
ISBN	1501156608

A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion.

Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early...

The Gastronomical Me

Author	M.F.K. Fisher
ISBN	0865473927

If one imagines M.F.K. Fisher's life as a large colorful painting, it is here, in The Gastronomical Me, that one sees the first lines and sketches upon which that life was based. In what is the most intimate of her five volumes of her "Art of Eating" series, the reader witnesses the beginnings of a writer...

You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir

Author	Parker Posey
ISBN	0735218196

It's hard not to love Parker Posey. A singularly gifted actress with a wickedly funny personality that belies her movie star status, her cross-generational fame stems from starring roles in such unforgettable movies as Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail, and her recurring roles in...

The Town in Bloom

Author	Dodie Smith
ISBN	0434713538

London's theatre world of the 1920's provides a glittering backdrop for Mouse, an eighteen-year-old Lancashire girl intent on a stage career. She tells the story herself with the utmost frankness and with an authenticity which derives from Dodie Smith's own wide experience as both actress and playwright.

Mouse...

Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon

Author	M.F.K. Fisher
ISBN	0671755145

I didn't know anything about Dijon except that a sandwich isn't a sandwich till you Poupon it. There's a lot more to it than just the moutard. This is the city where Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was initiated into the world of food and wine as sacrament, to be savored and lingered over and held in reverence....

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Author	Violette Leduc
ISBN	0720612179

I am on the side of light hearts and light wallets; look over here, you too can be made of light. I never gave anything away, I deserve to be where I am.

Eleanor Rigby versus the Piano Man. The old man in Home Alone versus the bird lady in Home Alone 2. There is sentiment without being sentimental. To...

Map of Another Town

Author	M.F.K. Fisher
ISBN	1911547372

‘A glowing memoir of Provence’ New York Times

M F K Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her daughters after the Second World War.

In Map of Another Town, she traces the history of this ancient and famous town, known for its tree-lined avenues, pretty fountains and ornate facades.

Beyond...

Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French

Author	John von Sothen
ISBN	0735224838

A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ

Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think...

The Gypsy Madonna

Author	Santa Montefiore
ISBN	0743278895

A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina

When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna....