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About: The Book of Love: Writers and their Love Letters
A Valentine's Day selection of more than one hundred love letters features passionate prose by writers ranging from Sappho to Anne Sexton, Marcus Aurelius to Nelson Algren. Reprint.
One hundred astonishing love letters by writers ranging from Sappho to Sexton, Neruda to Nin--these are definitely not your garden- variety sigh-fests. Cathy Davidson has delivered--though not signed or sealed--some extraordinary specimens. See Zelda Sayre's rather odd missive to F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Come Quick--Come Quick to me--I could never do without you if you hated me and were covered with sores like a leper..." or John Steinbeck's jocular letter to Elaine Scott: "Am a widower with 10,000 acres in Arizona and seven cows so if you can milk I will be glad to have you give up that tinsel life of debauchery and sin and come out to God's country where we got purple sage. P.S. Can you bring a little sin and debauchery along?" There's a letter for every mood--Davidson's arrangement covers love's infinite variety, from the act of falling to the fact of fighting. Of course, it's important to take some assertions less seriously than others. Though Henry Miller tells Anais Nin, "You have silenced me," he does carry on for another two pages!
One hundred astonishing love letters by writers ranging from Sappho to Sexton, Neruda to Nin--these are definitely not your garden- variety sigh-fests. Cathy Davidson has delivered--though not signed or sealed--some extraordinary specimens. See Zelda Sayre's rather odd missive to F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Come Quick--Come Quick to me--I could never do without you if you hated me and were covered with sores like a leper..." or John Steinbeck's jocular letter to Elaine Scott: "Am a widower with 10,000 acres in Arizona and seven cows so if you can milk I will be glad to have you give up that tinsel life of debauchery and sin and come out to God's country where we got purple sage. P.S. Can you bring a little sin and debauchery along?" There's a letter for every mood--Davidson's arrangement covers love's infinite variety, from the act of falling to the fact of fighting. Of course, it's important to take some assertions less seriously than others. Though Henry Miller tells Anais Nin, "You have silenced me," he does carry on for another two pages!