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Yours ever

people and their letters

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From the author of A Book of One's Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his own insightful and eloquent commentary on the circumstances and characters of the world's most intriguing letter writers. Here are Madame de Sevigne's devastatingly sharp reports from the court of Louis XIV, F. Scott Fitzgerald's tormented advice to his young daughter, the besotted midlife billets-doux of a suddenly rejuvenated Woodrow Wilson, the casually brilliant spiritual musings of Flannery O'Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, the cries from prison of Sacco and Vanzetti. Along with the confessions and complaints and revelations sent from battlefields, frontier cabins, and luxury liners, a reader will find Mallon considering travel bulletins, suicide notes, fan letters, and hate mail--forms as varied as the human experiences behind them.Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature--a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.From the Hardcover edition.

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Pantheon Books
Language
English

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Yours ever: people and their letters
2009, Pantheon Books
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Yours Ever
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.86
Library of Congress
PN6131 .M35 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23169957M
Internet Archive
yourseverpeoplet0000mall
ISBN 13
9780679444268
LCCN
2009006315
OCLC/WorldCat
311262906
Library Thing
8532429
Goodreads
6322429

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