商品簡介
Take the sumptuousness of Molly Peacock's own #1 bestselling The Paper Garden, the extraordinary creative variety ofThe Bedside Book of Birds, and the cat-nip-for-language-geeks appeal of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and wrap it around tales rich with wisdom and humanity, and you getAlphabetique: the most gorgeous gift book of the season.
Molly Peacock has written a new classic, a book of magical tales inspired by the lives of the letters of the alphabet.
Alphabetique, or Tales from the Lives of the Letters is one-of-a-kind, but nevertheless fits perfectly with Molly Peacock's extraordinary body of work, drawing on the same wellsprings of creativity and artistry as her poetry and her nonfiction, especially The Paper Garden. These 26 charming, incisive, sensual stories of love, yearning, and self-discovery are complimented by Kara Kosaka's layered, jewel-bright collages.
作者簡介
MOLLY PEACOCK is a poet, essayist and nonfiction writer. Her latest work of nonfiction is the #1 bestsellingThe Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72. She is also the author of the memoirParadise, Piece by Piece. Her most recent collection of poems is The Second Blush. She is a Contributing Editor to theLiterary Review of Canada, the editor of an anthology of essays, The Private I, and ofHow to Read a Poem and Start a Poetry Circle. Widely anthologized, her work appears inThe Oxford Book of American Poetry, The Best of the Best American Poetry, andThe Best American Essays. A dual citizen of the US and Canada, Molly Peacock is a former New Yorker who makes her home in Toronto with her husband, two cats, and a jam-packed terrace garden. Visit her at www.mollypeacock.org.
