Dear Mr. You
By: Mary-Louise Parker
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781501107832
Subjects: Relations with men; Friends and associates; Actors; Family; Biography
Other titles: Dear Mister You
Description: "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"--