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

Author/Contributor(s):	Gordon, Karen Elizabeth
Publisher:	Algonquin Books
Date:	01/10/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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".