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The Madeleine Project

The Madeleine Project

Beaudoux, Clara
Anderson, Alison

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ISBN10: 1939931495
ISBN13: 9781939931498
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: Sep 12 2017
Pages: 285
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

This extraordinary little book touched me deeply. Part graphic novel, part literary archeology, the author slowly unpacks a dusty cellar, and brings her subject to life. Even Madeleine's recipes have risen. Who would have guessed Twitter could be so poetic.
--Elizabeth Bard, author of Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes and Picnic in Provence

A young woman moves into a Paris apartment and discovers a storage room filled with the belongings of the previous owner, a certain Madeleine who died in her late nineties, and whose treasured possessions nobody seems to want. In an audacious act of journalism driven by personal curiosity and humane tenderness, Clara Beaudoux embarks on The Madeleine Project, documenting what she finds on Twitter with text and photographs, introducing the world to an unsung twentieth-century figure. Along the way, she uncovers a Parisian life indelibly marked by European history. This is a graphic novel for the Twitter age, a true story that encapsulates one woman's attempt to live a life of love and meaning together with a contemporary quest to prevent that existence from slipping into oblivion. Through it all, The Madeleine Project movingly chronicles, and allows us to reconstruct, intimate memories of a bygone era.

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