Four Letter Word: Original Love Letters

✍ Scribed by Knelman, Joshua; Porter, Rosalind (editor)

• Book ID: 109680962
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 410 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307369734

✦ Synopsis

An inspired collection of new fiction from some of today's most celebrated writers, exploring the charm, potency and seductive powers of a classic genre . . . the love letter.
When did you last receive a love letter? Have emails and text messages taken over from this romantic form of communication? Would a love letter by a novelist or poet be better than one written by you or me? How would the literary traits of a writer shape the love letters he or she writes? And might a love letter tell us something about its author their other writing could not?
Editors Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have assembled an exciting and unique collection of new fiction: they've asked some of our most celebrated contemporary writers to explore the distinctive form of the love letter to remind us how enticing words can be and perhaps even to resurrect a dying custom. Each of the pieces in this anthology is radically different from the others, each is a testimony to the creative powers of our...