This collection of travel letters by the American writer Howard Wolf is based on the author’s 1990 around- the- world trip that took him to Singapore, Malaysia, India, Turkey, and Greece. These unset letters make up something like an epistolary autobiography woven from a global fabric. wolf looks at the American scene — family, education, self-knowledge, and culture — against the backgrounds of the Malay Peninsula, India ( the largest section of the book), Greece, and Turkey, Between his departure from Western New York and his return to Florida, the author searches for " versions of home." The Letters are closely related in time and recurring themes; and, all together, a personal universe of characters is portrayed. A Version of Home : Letters From The World is not an experimental or Post-Modern "text." At the same time, the genre of travel letters, with its inevitable shifts of focus as the traveler moves from place to place, gives the book a contemporary feel. The author’s commitment to irreducible human experience sets him against recent Deconstructive trends. As the world seems to be moving away from the the art of Nuclear Holocaust, and greater openness between nations becomes possible at the end of the 20th Century. A Version of Home : Letters From The World is a book that makes real enhanced opportunities for communication between persons around the world. It is a book that discovers the common roots of the human tree and lets us take comfort beneath its canopy.
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