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100 1 $aFermor, Patrick Leigh,$eauthor.
240 10 $aCorrespondence.$kSelections
245 10 $aPatrick Leigh Fermor :$ba life in letters /$cselected and edited by Adam Sisman.
246 30 $aLife in letters
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c[2016]
300 $axxv, 469 pages, [16] pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
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500 $aOriginal title: Dashing for the Post.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. The letters in this volume span seventy years, from February 1940 to January 2010. The first was written ten days before Patrick Leigh Fermor's twenty-fifth birthday, when he was an officer cadet, hoping for a commission in the Irish Guards. He had hurried back to England from Romania in September 1939, expecting to die within weeks of being sent into action, like his friend who was a junior officer in the First World War. The last two were written on the same day, when Paddy (as he called himself, and almost everyone else called him) was ninety-four, a widower, very deaf, and suffering from tunnel vision, which made it hard for him to read even his own handwriting. His voice was already hoarse from the throat cancer that would kill him seventeen months later. But these last letters, like the first and most of the others printed here, exude a zest that was characteristic. From first to last, Paddy's letters radiate warmth and gaiety. Often they are decorated with witty illustrations and enhanced by comic verse. Sometimes they contain riddles and cringe-making puns"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aFermor, Patrick Leigh$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aTravel writers$zGreat Britain$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aSoldiers$zGreat Britain$vCorrespondence.
600 17 $aFermor, Patrick Leigh.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00008877
650 7 $aSoldiers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01125233
650 7 $aTravel writers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01201256
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
655 7 $aRecords and correspondence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423917
700 1 $aSisman, Adam,$eeditor.
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