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A coming-of-age memoir in which the author evokes the pen pals she wrote to as an adolescent in the '60s and '70s. In an attempt to transcend her boring life in Australia, she strives to track down her correspondents many years later, at midlife. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
| Size | | Length: | 224 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[C]harming and sharply intelligent, with much to say about growing up female and geographically unconnected....'Foreign Correspondence' is full of a generous interest in the life beyond the self. Geraldine Brooks is one of those writers who have truly gone out into the world, and she has sent back her dispatches with grace and good humor."
New York Times Book Review - Valerie Sayers (01/04/1998)
"An evocative, superbly written tale of a woman's journey to self-understanding....Alternately stirring and humorous, it offers an incisive emotional and spiritual travelogue, as well as the chronicle of an era."
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