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Each week we publish short extracts from books we love or passages we have come across in magazines or on the radio. This week's is from Deborah Davis’ book Party of the Century. We took this extract from the 2006 hardback edition by Wiley.
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Party of the Century

“Truman was more interested in Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. He felt he had a great deal in common with the French writer. Both men had the eccentric work habit of writing while reclining in their small beds, both were fascinated by the behaviour of people in high society, and both, though gay,…