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From the author of A Book of Oneβs 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 worldβs most intriguing letter writers. Here are Madame de SΓ©vignΓ©βs devastatingly sharp reports from the court of Louis XIV, F. Scott Fitzgeraldβs tormented advice to his young daughter, the besotted midlife billets-doux of a suddenly rejuvenated Woodrow Wilson, the casually brilliant spiritual musings of Flannery OβConnor, 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 mailβforms as varied as the human experiences behind them.
Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literatureβa book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.
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