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Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire

100 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life

by Graydon Carter and Risko

Hardcover, 216 pages, St Martins Pr, List Price: $23.99 |

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Title: Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire
Subtitle: 100 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life
Author: Graydon Carter and Risko

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Collects the responses to 100 top-selected Proust Questionnaire personalities through which celebrities answer a common series of probing personal questions, in a volume that includes entries for such figures as Bette Midler, Salman Rushdie and Martin Scorsese.

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