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Alexander, Patrick. Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past. Vintage: Random. 2009. c.400p. ISBN 978-0-30747232-8. pap. $15.95. LIT
This entertaining reader's guide will enhance the reader's appreciation of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece. Alexander (former director of professional advancement, Univ. of Miami) identifies many of the episodes and explains upon whom Proust's characters are modeled. He summarizes plots, contextualizes the novel in history, offers a short biography of Proust, and presents family trees and information on 50 key characters to help simplify the …