Letters to Jenny - Hardcover

Anthony, Piers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312854137 ISBN 13: 9780312854133

Publisher: Tor Books, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of letters written by the fantasy master to a twelve-year-old fan lying in a coma captures the drama of the slow response that the reading of the letters elicits from the injured child

About this title

About the Author:

Piers Anthony is one of the world's most popular fantasy authors, and a New York Times bestseller twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives hundreds of letters from his devoted fans.

In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other best-selling works. Piers Anthony lives in Inverness, Florida.

From Publishers Weekly:

In February 1989, science fiction writer Anthony, author of the Xanth series, received a moving letter. It came from a woman whose daughter, Jenny, was in a coma as a result of severe injuries caused by a drunk driver. She asked Anthony to write to Jenny, an avid fan of his, in the hope that a letter from him would evoke some response. Her request resulted in a series of warm, supportive and humorous letters written weekly from Anthony to Jenny. These were read to the patient by her mother. The original letters Anthony wrote between February 1989 and 1990, reproduced here along with Anthony's comments, reveal the author's wit, humanism and social conscience. Jenny has come out of her coma, but is still confined to a wheelchair. Anthony also named a character in his next Xanth novel after Jenny, whose limited but definite physical responses to his letters indicated how important they were to her. Of greatest interest to Anthony devotees.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0312854137
• ISBN 13: 9780312854133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288