Dear Mr. You /

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Author / Creator:Parker, Mary-Louise, author.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Scribner, 2015.
©2015
Description:viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10396576
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Varying Form of Title:Dear mister you
ISBN:9781501107832
1501107836
9781501107856
9781501107849 (paperback)
1501107844 (paperback)
1501107852 (ebook)
Summary:"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. 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"--