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Women of Letters: Reviving The Lost Art of Correspondence

Women of Letters: Reviving The Lost Art of Correspondence

Jen Cloher
3.7/5 ( ratings)
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Other contributors:
Helen Razer
Amanda Roff
Tim Rogers
John Safran
Ben Salter
Fiona Scott-Norman
Sally Seltmann
Adalita Srsen
Jake Stone
Mia Timpano
Natalie van den Dungen
Jenny Valentish
Lorelei Vashti
Jo Walker
Megan Washington
Cal Wilson
Julia Zemiro

In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.

In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends 'A love letter' to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in 'The letter I wish I'd written', Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke 'To my first boss', and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes 'To the best present I ever received'.

And some gentlemen correspondents – including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis – have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter 'To the woman who changed my life'.

By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing.

All royalties for this book will go to Edgar's Mission animal rescue shelter.
Language
English
Pages
413
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Group
Release
October 31, 2011
ISBN
0670076090
ISBN 13
9780670076093

Women of Letters: Reviving The Lost Art of Correspondence

Jen Cloher
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Other contributors:
Helen Razer
Amanda Roff
Tim Rogers
John Safran
Ben Salter
Fiona Scott-Norman
Sally Seltmann
Adalita Srsen
Jake Stone
Mia Timpano
Natalie van den Dungen
Jenny Valentish
Lorelei Vashti
Jo Walker
Megan Washington
Cal Wilson
Julia Zemiro

In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.

In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends 'A love letter' to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in 'The letter I wish I'd written', Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke 'To my first boss', and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes 'To the best present I ever received'.

And some gentlemen correspondents – including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis – have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter 'To the woman who changed my life'.

By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing.

All royalties for this book will go to Edgar's Mission animal rescue shelter.
Language
English
Pages
413
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Group
Release
October 31, 2011
ISBN
0670076090
ISBN 13
9780670076093

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