My Dear Mother Stormy Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons--From Dostoevsky to Elvis |
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| Author:
| Gordon, Karen Elizabeth
Johnson, Holly |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56512-784-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
| Publisher: | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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| Book Format: | Digital download |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood--including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee WIlliams, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood--including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee WIlliams, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.