Contact!Jan MorrisMainLabel: Faber & FaberDescription: In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes some only a few lines long she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters celebrating the people who helped spark her view of the world and mould her responses. A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous everyday encounters - children playing a homeless man in Manhattan a lascivious taxi-driver - but she also remembers celebrated figures from Yves San Laurent to King Hussein of Jordan President Truman to Peter OToole. Contact! is a must for any fans of Jan's writing. Her great sense of amusement shrewd eye for detail and huge enthusiasm for her contacts makes these episodes incredibly enjoyable - and often profound.
