Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks - ISBN: 9781863256131
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Childhood letters spark a journey from suburbia to war zones.

Foreign Correspondence

A Pen Pal's Journey From Down Under to All Over

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2008

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Summary

A beautiful new edition of Geraldine Brooks’ award-winning memoir of her Australian childhood to coincide with the publication of her latest novel.

An award-winning memoir from the bestselling author of March and Year of Wonders.

Born in Sydney’s western suburbs in the late 1950s, the young Geraldine Brooks longs to discover the vivid places where she believes history and culture are made. Penfriends from the Middle East, France and America offer her the wind…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781863256131
ISBN-10:186325613X
Author:Geraldine Brooks
Publisher:Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Imprint:Bantam
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:3rd
Release Date:3 March 2008
Weight:241g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 18mm
About The Author

Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is the Australian-born author of the bestselling novels Year of Wonders and March, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. Her eagerly-awaited third novel, People of the Book, will be published in 2008. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. A graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. She lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their son.

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