Contact! : A Book of Glimpses
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In Contact! Jan Morris turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she 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 Saint Laurent to King Hussein of Jordan, President Truman to Peter O'Toole.
A must for any fans of Jan Morris'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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