Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums

by Maggie Fergusson

Book Overview

In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Mus'e Rodin in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610396804
• ISBN13: 9781610396806
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Economist
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"