Dear Mr. You
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2017 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the AuthorThe bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, "warmly conspiratorial...seriously good" (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. "There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker...Funny, heartbreaking and profound" (Elle).An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former lovers to an homage to a firefighter she encountered to a heartfelt communication with the uncle of the infant daughter she adopted. Readers will be amazed by the depth and style of these letters, which reveal the complexity and power to be found in relationships both loving and fraught.
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9781442388376
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title_full | Dear Mr. You | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Dear Mr. You | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Nonfiction Performing Arts |