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CONTACT!
A BOOK OF GLIMPSES |
| By: |
Jan Morris |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571250688 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571250684 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
5 November, 2009 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Records brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark the author's view of the world and mould her responses. This book presents a range of human experience: children playing, a homeless man in Manhattan and a lascivious taxi-driver. It also features celebrated figures, from President Truman to Peter OToole. |
| Synopsis: |
In "Contact!" Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the world and mould her responses. A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous, everyday encounters - children playing, a homeless man in Manhattan, a lascivious taxi-driver - but she also remembers celebrated figures, from Yves San Laurent to King Hussein of Jordan, President Truman to Peter OToole. "Contact!" is a must for any fans of Jan's writing. Her great sense of amusement, shrewd eye for detail and huge enthusiasm for her contacts makes these episodes incredibly enjoyable - and often profound. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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