Foreign Correspondence
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786218400 (0786218401)
Publish date: May 1st 1999
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 315
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
20th Century,
Journalism,
Biography Memoir,
Australia
Inspired by her father's letter writing and longing for a glimpse of the world outside her hometown, young Geraldine Brooks sent away for pen friends around the world. Many years later, she decided to track down these friends.Brooks deftly shows parallels between her own adolescence and the developm...
Very nice little "autobiography lite."