Foreign Correspondence

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Foreign Correspondence

A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over

Biography: business and industry News media and journalism

Author: Geraldine Brooks

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Language: English

Published by: Anchor

Published on: 26th January 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9780307773647


About the Book

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness. Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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