Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters - Rilegato

Asimov, Isaac

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ISBN 10: 0385476221 ISBN 13: 9780385476225

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1900

Riassunto

Compiled and edited by his younger brother, hundreds of letters, never published before, reveal the wit, charm, and celebrated intelligence of the enormously prolific science and science fiction writer. 20,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Stanley Asimov was the former vice president for editorial administration at Newsday, and served on the adjunct faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books in nearly every category of fiction and nonfiction. Asimov was a prodigious correspondent as well as a prolific author. During his professional career he received more than one hundred thousand letters, over ninety thousand of which he answered.

For Asimov's younger brother, veteran newspaperman Stanley Asimov, the creation of Yours, Isaac Asimov was truly a labor of love. Completed before Stanley's death in August 1995, the book is made up of excerpts from one thousand never-before-published letters, each handpicked by Stanley for inclusion in this volume. Arranged by subject and accompanied by Stanley's short, insightful introductions, here are letters to statesmen and scientists, actors and authors, as well as to children, housewives, aspiring writers, and fans the world over. The letters are warm, engaging, reasoned, and occasionally impa

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1900
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385476221
• ISBN 13: 9780385476225
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 332
• Redattore: Asimov Stanley
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile