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Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters

Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters

Sisman, Adam
Sisman, Adam
Leigh Fermor, Patrick

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Adventurers & ExplorersLiterary FiguresLetters & Essays

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1681371561
ISBN13: 9781681371566
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 14 2017
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.07 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
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.

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