{"product_id":"2026100008134-secondhand-the-ackerley-letters","title":"The Ackerley Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Yellowed with minor damage.  Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Rubbed edges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in twentieth-century British letters were as magnetically singular as J.R. Ackerley — memoirist, playwright, and long-serving literary editor of *The Listener* — and this carefully assembled collection of his correspondence grants readers an intimate window into his restless, brilliant mind. Edited by Neville Braybrooke, The Ackerley Letters gathers a rich trove of personal and professional exchanges that chronicle Ackerley's friendships, feuds, and intellectual passions, illuminating the vibrant literary culture of mid-century London with candour and wit.\n\nAckerley's letters crackle with the same unsentimental honesty and wry self-awareness that distinguished his celebrated autobiographical works, and Braybrooke's editorial hand is both judicious and reverent, preserving the correspondent's voice in full. The collection presents a portrait of a man profoundly engaged with the moral and aesthetic questions of his age, unafraid to challenge convention in both his art and his life. For admirers of literary biography and epistolary writing alike, The Ackerley Letters leaves one wondering just how much of the man's extraordinary inner world still waits to be uncovered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130719674587,"sku":"2026100008134-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/99cb1474-b5eb-4eda-9e88-1f0d4f3b6630.png?v=1786589222","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008134-secondhand-the-ackerley-letters","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}