- Title:
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Kiss and Tell
- Written by:
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Alain de Botton
- Read by:
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Nicholas Bell
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 4 minutes
- Published:
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May 01 2013
- Available Date:
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May 28 2013
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743153857
- Genres:
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Fiction; General Fiction; Romance
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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"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
Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathise, the narrator of Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life.
He meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at a small stationery company in London, apparently an ordinary woman. But as the biographer's understanding of Isabel deepens, she becomes remarkable. Her smallest quirks, private habits, and opinions become worthy of the most painstaking investigation - and unexpectedly attractive to her biographer.
"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