Status
Available
Publication
New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
Description
The most extraordinary dinner party of all time - the night Proust, Joyce, Picasso and Stravinsky all met.
User reviews
LibraryThing member vguy
Thin. Gossipy. Revelling in a thousand names. Trivia about famous artists or titled rich folk. Only point of interest was comparison of Proust & Joyce: they were rude to each other ( which i already knew) and Proust sold well while Joyce did not. My distaste exacerbated by the audio reader (on
Show More
Clipper) who put on funny voices for those funny foreigners (so Proust sounded like a character from ‘allo ‘allo) but couldn’t pronounce French ( so Prince sounded like Prance, rue like roue, and avant-garde had a hard T). Quel horreur! Show Less