Foreign correspondence
Brooks, Geraldine1999
Book
Traveling full circle to attend her dying father, Brooks stumbles on the old letters in her parents' basement. She embarks on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends, and to retrieve her own lost memories of the shy Sydney girl who wrote to them. One by one, she finds men and women whose lives have been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of a mysterious and tragic mental illness. It is only from the distance of foreign lands and against the background of alien lives that Brooks finally sees her homeplace clearly. This intimate, moving, and often humorous memoir of growing up Down Under speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.
Main title:
Foreign correspondence / Geraldine Brooks.
Author:
Brooks, Geraldine, author
Work:
Edition:
First Anchor Books trade paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Anchor Books, 1999.©1998
Collation:
217 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"A pen pal's journey from Down Under to all over" --Cover.
ISBN:
9780385483735
Dewey class:
070.4332092BB/
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2514666