Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan

By Ted Berrigan and Cleo Qian

Letters illuminating a legendary literary love affair and the young artists who made 1960s New York the world's cultural capital.

Ted and Sandy Berrigan's honeymoon ended when her father, a well-connected doctor, forced Sandy into a mental hospital, had Ted run out of town by the sheriff, and hired private detectives to investigate his friends. These intimate, irresistible letters, written over the course of their three-month separation, read like a passionate, epistolary novel--full of longing, intrigue, and gossip. They also offer serious advice for developing readers and writers, bring the thriving cultural scene in mid-twentieth-century New York to life, and serve as a day-by-day chronicle of Ted Berrigan's developing voice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156689249X
• ISBN13: 9781566892490
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"