To the Letter A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing

Name: To the Letter A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
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ISBN: 9781592408825

ISBN-10: 1592408826

ISBN-13: 9781592408825

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Authors: Simon Garfield

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The New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digital age. Few things are as excitingand potentially life-changingas discovering an old letter. And while etiquette books still extol the practice, letter writing seems to be disappearing amid a flurry of e-mails, texting, and tweeting. The recent decline in letter writing marks a cultural shift so vast that in the future historians may divide time not between BC and AD but between the eras when people wrote letters and when they did not. So New York Times bestselling author Simon Garfield asks: Can anything be done to revive a practice that has dictated…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.24" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Simon Garfield is the author of several acclaimed books, including "The End of the Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS", winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.