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In Tearing Haste
- Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Engelsk Paperback
In Tearing Haste
- Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Engelsk Paperback

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In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires'' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highly entertaining letters.

There can rarely have been such contrasting styles: Debo, unashamed philistine and self-professed illiterate (though suspected by her friends of being a secret reader), darts from subject to subject while Paddy, polyglot, widely read prose virtuoso, replies in the fluent, polished manner that has earned him recognition as one of the finest writers in the English language.

Prose notwithstanding, the two friends have much in common: a huge enjoyment of life, youthful high spirits, warmth, generosity and lack of malice. There are glimpses of President Kennedy''s inauguration, weekends at Sandringham, stag hunting in France, filming with Errol Flynn in French Equatorial Africa and, above all, of life at Chatsworth, the great house that Debo spent much of her life restoring, and of Paddy in the house that he and his wife Joan designed and built on the southernmost peninsula of Greece.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9780719568572
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0719568579
Udg. Dato:
9 jul 2009
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
John Murray Press
Oplagsdato:
9 jul 2009
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