{"product_id":"in-tearing-haste-isbn-9781681371863","title":"In Tearing Haste","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire's witty, informative, and altogether delightful correspondence. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the  six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick  Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires’ house in Ireland.  The halcyon visit sparked a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of  highly entertaining correspondence.\"Spanning  1954 to 2007, the volume reads like an accidental  memoir of a  disappearing world stretching from the manor houses of the  English  aristocracy to the olive groves of Greece, its people and places   rendered with a kind of care that’s becoming scarce in our age of   helter-skelter communication. At the same time, the book’s title, a   phrase deriving from Leigh Fermor’s habit of dashing off messages ‘with a   foot in the stirrup,’ captures the vigor and bustle of the lives that   nourished the correspondence….\u003ci\u003eIn Tearing Haste\u003c\/i\u003e is engaging from   start to finish. There isn’t a dull letter among Charlotte Mosley’s   selections. Even her annotations, often incorporating information from   the book’s two correspondents, are as surprising as they are   informative….More than anything else, the collection is important as an   addition to Leigh Fermor’s body of work, both because his letters   constitute a larger portion of the volume and because the writing in   them harmonizes with the books that established his literary  reputation.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is a book that evokes a  lost world of glamour, intelligence and  personal scruples. The memory  of its pristine landscapes, resolute  gaiety and eccentric characters  leaves a glorious afterglow.\" —\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Spanning half a century, bursting with wit and conviviality…the result  is surely one of the great 20th-century correspondences.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e (London) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This marvelous correspondence celebrates two of the most important things in the world, courage and friendship\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Highly engaging exchanges of mutual joie de vivre.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"As full of fizz and conviviality as a glass of champagne\" —\u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A feast for reading…An enchanting book.\" —\u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Chatty, witty, teasing, gossipy, relentlessly cheerful and with more   than a hint of modest good sense, her short replies bounce off his   beautiful essays like volleys of tennis balls off a cathedral.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor\u003c\/b\u003e (1915–2011) was an intrepid traveler and a heroic  soldier who is widely considered to be one of the finest travel writers  of the twentieth century. After his stormy school days, followed by the  walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in \u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e (1977) and continues through \u003ci\u003eBetween the Woods and the Water\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road\u003c\/i\u003e (published posthumously in 2013), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek archipelago. His books \u003ci\u003eA Time to Keep Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), \u003ci\u003eMani\u003c\/i\u003e (1958) and \u003ci\u003eRoumeli\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In  the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison  officer in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete. He was awarded the  DSO and OBE. Leigh Fermor lived partly in Greece—in the house he  designed with his wife, Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani—and partly  in Worcestershire. In 2004 he was knighted for his services to  literature and to British–Greek relations. Artemis Cooper’s biography, \u003ci\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by New York Review Books in 2013.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire \u003c\/b\u003e(1920-2014) was the youngest and last  surviving of the six noted Mitford sisters. She became chatelaine and  housekeeper of one of England’s greatest and best-loved houses, and  following her husband Andrew’s death in 2004, she moved to a village on  the Chatsworth Estate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Mosley\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Paris and has worked as a publisher and journalist. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eLove from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304829833445,"sku":"NP9781681371863","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681371863.jpg?v=1767729947","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/in-tearing-haste-isbn-9781681371863","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}