Expatriates of No Country: The letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene
Columbia University Press, US$22 pb, 216 pp
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A sense of not belonging
Biographers nearly always rejoice to find a bundle of letters. If both sides of a correspondence have survived, it doubles the pleasure. At its best, an exchange that was maintained over a long period will illuminate personality, time, and place. Love letters are probably the most highly prized. Whether or not the lovers have the gift of words, their closeness in a relationship brings a sense of reality. Readers of some self-revealing intimate letters may feel like intruders, uninvited watchers at a private theatre for which they didn’t buy a ticket.
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Expatriates of No Country: The letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene
edited by Brigitta Olubas
Columbia University Press, US$22 pb, 216 pp
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