‏138.00 ₪

PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: A LIFE IN LETTERS

‏138.00 ₪
ISBN13
9781681371566
זמן אספקה
במלאי, (זמן אספקה 5 ימי עסקים)
עמודים
512
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
1 בנוב׳ 2017
The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. Handsome, spirited, and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a wonderful friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four, and the correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper, and his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner. The letters exhibit many of Fermor's most engaging characteristics: his lust for life, his unending curiosity, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of language, his exuberance, and his tendency to get into scrapes--particularly when drinking and, quite separately, driving. Here are plenty of extraordinary stories: the hunt for Byron's slippers in one of the remotest regions of Greece; an ignominious dismissal from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque; and hiding behind a bush to dub Dirk Bogarde into Greek during the shooting of Ill Met by Moonlight. The letters radiate warmth and gaiety; many are enhanced with witty illustrations and comic verse, while others contain riddles and puns. Every one of them entertains.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 512
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 1681371561
תאריך יציאה לאור 1 בנוב׳ 2017
זמן אספקה במלאי, (זמן אספקה 5 ימי עסקים)