At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives (including a readership comprising both adults and children); a life pared down to essentials and yet eventful, peripatetic, at times publicly controversial.
- ISBN10 0571221386
- ISBN13 9780571221387
- Publish Date 1 November 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 784
- Language English