Contact!

A Book of Glimpses

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Jan Morris

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Paperback / softback

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In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she has made, across the globe and through the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the world and mould her responses. A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous, everyday encounters - children playing, a homeless man in Manhattan, a lascivious taxi-driver - but she also remembers celebrated figures from Yves San Laurent, to King Hussein of Jordan, President Truman to Peter O'Toole. Contact! is a must for any fans of Jan's writing. Her great sense of amusement, shrewd eye for detail and huge enthusiasm for her contacts makes these episodes incredibly enjoyable - and often profound.

Author Biography:

Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea.

Release date Australia

September 2nd, 2010

Author

Jan Morris

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

208

Dimensions

125x197x15

ISBN-13

9780571250691

Product ID

7167703

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