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Contact!: A Book of Glimpses
Jan Morris
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Description for Contact!: A Book of Glimpses
Paperback. Focuses on the human contacts the author has made, across the globe and though the decades. This title presents the author's glimpses and her fleeting encounters, which celebrate the people who helped spark her view of the world and mould her responses. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though 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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
174g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571250691
SKU
V9780571250691
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4
About Jan Morris
Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother. She spent the last years of her life with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, the Pax Britannica trilogy and Conundrum. She was also the author of six books ... Read more
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