9780307382641
Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See share button
Bill Shapiro
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 7.03 (w) x 8.54 (h) x 0.98 (d)
Pages 192
Publisher Crown Publishing Group
Publication Date October 2007
ISBN 9780307382641
Book ISBN 10 0307382648
About Book

Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People’s Love Letters, Bill Shapiro has searched America’s attics, closets, and cigar boxes and found actual letters–unflinchingly honest missives full of lust, provocation, guilt, and vulnerability–written only for a lover’s eyes. Modern love, of course, is not all bliss, and in these pages you’ll find the full range of a relationship, with its whispered promises as well as its heartache. But what at first appears to be a deliciously voyeuristic peek into other people’s most passionate moments, will ultimately reawaken your own desires and tenderness…because when you read these letters, you’ll find the heart you’re looking into is actually your own.

• "i think UR great. wanna have wine & Tequila again sometime?"

• "I can't believe you're real, and I think about you constantly in some way or the other all day. I haven't given the finger to anyone driving since I met you."

• "With you I learned how to fight cleaner, how to talk things out better, and how to make a strong loving family out of nothing. These are priceless gifts that I will carry with me the rest of my life. One more thing you did for me: you left, and I had to get through it."

• "P.S. I look forward to your letters too much to call. Also, where do you stand on chains?"

Reviews

From Barnes & Noble

Love comes in many flavors. Former LIFE editor Bill Shapiro's voyeuristic trove of romantic letters reveals that we can scarcely count the ways that passion works. His stash of finds includes poetic declarations of devotion, cries of heartache, and even pragmatic calls of renewal: "i think UR great. wanna have wine & Tequila again sometime?" Other People's Love Letters offers solace for anybody who ever struggled with humble little love notes of their own.