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 OToole.
Contact! is a must for any fans of Jan's writing. Her great sense of amusement, shrewd eye for detail and huge enthusiasm for her contacts makes these episodes incredibly enjoyable - and often profound.
Product details
- Paperback | 208 pages
- 126 x 198 x 13mm | 171g
- 02 Sep 2010
- FABER & FABER
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Main
- 0571250696
- 9780571250691
- 725,226
Download Contact! : A Book of Glimpses (9780571250691).pdf, available at pasmae.org for free.
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