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The Prisoner and The Fugitive

The Prisoner and the Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5) - Marcel Proust, Carol Clark, Christopher Prendergast, Peter   Collier

bookshelves: published-1925, lit-richer, france, fradio, radio-4x, epic-proportions, classic

Read on November 17, 2013

 

Hiding away from his turbulent love affair with Albertine, Marcel receives a devastating telegram. Stars James Wilby.

"We are a hundred different people every day"

This is the one with rampant paranoia, a yacht, a rolls royce, and the fickleness of love...

2* Swann's Way
2.5* Within a Budding Grove
3* The Guermantes Way
3.5* Sodom and Gomorrah
4* The Prisoner and The Fugitive

I have a feeling that these ratings reflect my own mind-block falling away and that this epic really is as good as everyone said it was.