Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters

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"The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. The letters in this volume span seventy years, from February 1940 to January 2010. The first was written ten days before Patrick Leigh Fermor's twenty-fifth birthday, when he was an officer cadet, hoping for a commission in the Irish Guards. He had hurried back to England from Romania in September 1939, expecting to die within weeks of being sent into action, like his friend who was a junior officer in the First World War. The last two were written on the same day, when Paddy (as he called himself, and almost everyone else called him) was ninety-four, a widower, very deaf, and suffering from tunnel vision, which made it hard for him to read even his own handwriting. His voice was already hoarse from the throat cancer that would kill him seventeen months later. But these last letters, like the first and most of the others printed here, exude a zest that was characteristic. From first to last, Paddy's letters radiate warmth and gaiety. Often they are decorated with witty illustrations and enhanced by comic verse. Sometimes they contain riddles and cringe-making puns"--

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Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a celebrated writer. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Order of the British Empire, and was knighted for his services to literature and British- Greek relations. NYRB Classics and New York Review Books publish several of his works of travel writing, including A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and Water, The Broken Road, The Traveller's Tree, A Time to Keep Silence, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, and Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece, as well as his memoir, Abducting a General. Adam Sisman is the author of several biographies, most recently of John le Carré. His Boswell's Presumptuous Task won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of St. Andrews.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781681371566
ISBN-10:	1681371561
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Leigh Fermor, Patrick
Redaktion:	Sisman, Adam Sisman, Adam
Hersteller:	New York Review of Books
Maße:	211 x 139 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Leigh Fermor
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.11.2017
Gewicht:	0,574 kg

Artikel-ID: 108508168

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Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781681371566
ISBN-10:	1681371561
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Leigh Fermor, Patrick
Redaktion:	Sisman, Adam Sisman, Adam
Hersteller:	New York Review of Books
Maße:	211 x 139 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Leigh Fermor
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.11.2017
Gewicht:	0,574 kg