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The John Lennon Letters

Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies

John Lennon author Hunter Davies author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:29th Sep '16

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First ever collection of the letters of John Lennon, an international publishing event.

The first-ever collection of the letters of John Lennon, now available in paperback.

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon

John Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens more. Now, his letters have been collected and published, illuminating as never before the intimate side of a private genius.

Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles, has tracked down almost three hundred of Lennon's letters and postcards - to relations, friends, fans, strangers, lovers and even to the laundry. Some of the letters are tender, informative, funny, angry and abusive, and some are simply heart-breaking - from his earliest surviving thank-you note, written when he was ten, to his last scribbled autograph given on 8 December 1980, the day he was shot, aged forty.

[Davies] has done a sensitive and scrupulous job collecting and annotating Lennon's letters, and the book is beautifully designed * Vanity Fair *
A must-read for Beatles fans * Glamour *
The letters offer an opportunity to see Lennon less as icon than as human being * LA Times *
A massive deposit of freshly excavated notes, screeds, asides and howls, each lavishly reproduced and carefully annotated, "Letters" is the most intimate book ever published about Lennon. In its revelation of the man's psychology, it far surpasses all previous accounts by wives, lovers, half-siblings, ex-aides and even the best biographers. * Washington Post *

ISBN: 9781780225036

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 28mm

Weight: 332g

400 pages