Reviews for For Your Eye Alone: Robertson Davies' Letters, 1976-1995

The average rating for For Your Eye Alone: Robertson Davies' Letters, 1976-1995 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-10 00:00:00 Timothy Nash Davies is a charming companion and these letters sparkle with wit and sophisticated opinion.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-29 00:00:00 John Papp When a friend told me about the HandsOnTwinCities Expo held at Mall of America, I volunteered to help. Encouraging Minnesotans to contemplate civic responsibility sounded like positive gesture in support of the community that was shortly to become my own. It just goes to show you: a tiny good deed can repay the doer a hundredfold in the most unexpected ways. Me? I met Mark Heimenz and Jacquie Hee during that Expo, and both have become dearly treasured friends. And then, my volunteer duties completed, I wandered into a MOA bookstore and discovered Robertson Davies' collection of previously unpublished personal correspondence on a clearance table. Davies is in my Top Ten list of favorite authors, and I'd read everything he's written. Multiple times. Personal correspondence by so fabulous an author must be equally delicious to read, yes? Yes, and yes, and yes; I can tell you for certain. If Mosby's work opens doors to richer possibilities in living, Davies' correspondence is an inspiration to anyone who believes that notes between loved ones and friends and mere acquaintances, and sometimes even strangers, can matter. This collection is tender and sardonic and wise and laugh-out-loud hilarious in turn. It is the How To Say It manual of a luminous soul, and one of those volumes I will have always with me. So thanks, HandsOnTwinCities. Your commitment to community brought fine friends and fabulous words my way in 2006. In fact, I think I'll open my Davies and write down my appreciation for your eye alone.