My dear mother : stormy, boastful, and tender letters from distinguished sons--from Dostoevsky to Elvis / collected and annotated by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and Holly Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth.

Johnson, Holly, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--Correspondence.

Artists.

Mothers and sons--Correspondence.

Mothers and sons.

Arts.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997.

Summary:

Whether it's to ask for a loan, to share tales from travels abroad, or to announce a marriage, here are letters to their mothers by over 50 writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood, including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E.B. White, Paul Cezanne, Victor Hugo, Mozart, and Jack Kerouac. From tenderness to outright brutality, possessiveness to indifference, sons and mothers share a wide range of emotions, all portrayed in "My Dear Mother".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-199).

ISBN:

156512121X

OCLC:

36817111