Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters

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Label

Patrick Leigh Fermor : a life in letters

Title remainder

a life in letters

Statement of responsibility

selected and edited by Adam Sisman

Title variation

Life in letters

Creator

• Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Contributor

• Sisman, Adam

Author

• Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Editor

• Sisman, Adam

Subject

• Fermor, Patrick Leigh -- Correspondence
• Great Britain
• Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
• Travel writers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
• Travel writers
• Soldiers
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh
• Records and correspondence

Genre

• Correspondence
• Records and correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

"The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. The letters in this volume span seventy years, from February 1940 to January 2010. The first was written ten days before Patrick Leigh Fermor's twenty-fifth birthday, when he was an officer cadet, hoping for a commission in the Irish Guards. He had hurried back to England from Romania in September 1939, expecting to die within weeks of being sent into action, like his friend who was a junior officer in the First World War. The last two were written on the same day, when Paddy (as he called himself, and almost everyone else called him) was ninety-four, a widower, very deaf, and suffering from tunnel vision, which made it hard for him to read even his own handwriting. His voice was already hoarse from the throat cancer that would kill him seventeen months later. But these last letters, like the first and most of the others printed here, exude a zest that was characteristic. From first to last, Paddy's letters radiate warmth and gaiety. Often they are decorated with witty illustrations and enhanced by comic verse. Sometimes they contain riddles and cringe-making puns"--

Member of

• Correspondence., Selections
• New York Review book

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 910.4092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6056.E65

LC item number

Z48 2016

Literary form

letters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New York Review book