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For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.
A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.
When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.
Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.
Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.
Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another. For readers of 84, Charing Cross Road: a four-year correspondence between a poet in Chiang Mai and a longtime London bookshop reader, on books, freedom, memory, and friendship. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798950183188
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another. For readers of 84, Charing Cross Road: a four-year correspondence between a poet in Chiang Mai and a longtime London bookshop reader, on books, freedom, memory, and friendship. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798950183188
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another. Seller Inventory # 9798950183188
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For readers who have cherished Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road, here is a correspondence for the age of exile, memory, and lightning.A manuscript travels from Chiang Mai to a London bookshop. Four years of letters begin.When Athena Tong, a poet living in Chiang Mai, sends her work to Jeremy Cranswick, who has worked at London's Watkins Books since 1990, an exchange about reading and publication becomes an unexpected friendship across generations, cultures, and continents.Like 84, Charing Cross Road, this book begins with a love of books and the rare intimacy of two people who have never met. But these letters travel further: into poetry, music, philosophy, faith, memory, war, freedom, and the moral pressures of public life.Across four years, Athena and Jeremy ask what it means to remain awake to history, to preserve memory when it is threatened, and to speak truthfully in an uncertain world.Part literary correspondence and part philosophical reflection, The Blue Bird and the Lightning is a moving record of friendship, moral courage, and the enduring human need to read, think, and answer one another. For readers of 84, Charing Cross Road: a four-year correspondence between a poet in Chiang Mai and a longtime London bookshop reader, on books, freedom, memory, and friendship. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798950183188
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