Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Mallon, Thomas

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

Thomas Mallon
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A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry.

Here are Madame de Sévigné's devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald's tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O'Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon's own insightful commentary. From battlefield confessions to suicide notes, fan letters to hate mail, 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/07/2010
ISBN: 9780307477415
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.32w x 0.81d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/05/2010 pg. 62