In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the world and mould her responses. A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous, everyday encounters - children playing, a homeless man in Manhattan, a lascivious taxi-driver - but she also remembers celebrated figures, from Yves San Laurent to King Hussein of Jordan, President Truman to Peter OToole.
Contact! is a must for any fans of Jan's writing. Her great sense of amusement, shrewd eye for detail and huge enthusiasm for her contacts makes these episodes incredibly enjoyable - and often profound.
| ISBN: | 9780571250691 |
| Publication date: | 2nd September 2010 |
| Author: | Jan Morris |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Genres: |
Classic travel writing Biography: arts and entertainment Literary essays |