My Dear Mother: Stormy Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons--From Dostoevsky to Elvis

By Holly Johnson and Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Book Overview

This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood--including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee WIlliams, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156512121X
• ISBN13: 9781565121218
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.1"