McClelland & Stewart

LETTERS OF NOTE: FATHERS (by Shaun Usher)

$14.95

A delightful collection of letters about fathers and fatherhood, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.The curator of Letters of Note, Shaun Usher, gives us wonderful volumes featuring letters organized around a universal theme.

In this volume, Shaun Usher turns his attention to the topic of fathers and fatherhood. Bringing together a selection of remarkable correspondence by and about fathers from across the ages and around the world, Letters of Fathers includes proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as missives from both frustrated and adoring offspring. Featuring letters by Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Ted Hughes, Saul Bellow, Anne Frank, Groucho Marx, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Kurt Vonnegut, Eddie Glaude, W.E.B. Du Bois, Dashiell Hammett, Rudyard Kipling, Lily Collins, Mohandas Gandhi, Spalding Gray, Katherine Mansfield, Spotswood Rice, Fergal Keane and many more, this is a compulsive collection of entertaining, inspiring, and powerful letters with fathers at their heart.

  • 176 pages
  • Format: Paperback
  • Size: 178 x 127 mm
  • ISBN: 9780771049613