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Letters home : 1936-1977

Larkin, Philip2018
Books, Manuscripts
'Letters Home' gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship.
Main title:
Letters home : 1936-1977 / Philip Larkin ; edited by James Booth.
Author:
Edition:
New edition / edited by James Booth.
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2018.
Collation:
lxvii, 612 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780571335596 (hbk)
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
2319661
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