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Contact! : A Book of Glimpses - Jan Morris

Contact!

A Book of Glimpses

By: Jan Morris

Paperback | 2 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Jan Morris has been a travel writer for over half a century, known for her ability to perfectly capture places and atmospheres . But what about the many people she has encountered along the way?

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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