Contact!: A Book of Glimpses

Jan Morris

Contact!: A Book of Glimpses
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 November 2010
Pages
208
ISBN
9780571250691

Contact!: A Book of Glimpses

Jan Morris

In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she has made, across the globe and through 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 O'Toole.

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.

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