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The Correspondent — Everyone's Reading This Book Wrong | The Book Brief Project
The Correspondent has been embraced as a novel about the lost art of letter writing — slowness, civility, connection, the pleasure of putting words on paper. But Virginia Evans is doing something more complicated with the form: showing how correspondence can reveal a life while also protecting someone from being fully seen.Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three and writes constantly — to authors she admires, to friends and family, to strangers, even to customer service representatives. Through those letters, Evans builds a portrait of a woman who is articulate, observant and emotionally evasive…
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