Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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New York Review Books. New. New New York Review Books, 2017 New 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
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
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- Title
- Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters
- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1681371561
- ISBN 13
- 9781681371566
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- This edition first published
- 2017-11
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