Foreign Correspondence

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

Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel, Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Geraldine Brooks ISBN: 9780307773647
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: January 26, 2011
Imprint: Anchor Language: English
Author: Geraldine Brooks
ISBN: 9780307773647
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: January 26, 2011
Imprint: Anchor
Language: English

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.

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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.

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