MISTER GOD, THIS IS ANNA

by Fynn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 29, 1975

Anna (sponsored by her British publisher William Collins as the most amazing story he ever handled in fifty years) was a five-year-old ""bomb with legs on"" when she attached herself to Fynn, then nineteen, just before WW II. He took her home with him (""no bleeding cop shop"" for her) and she stayed until she fell from a tree when she was almost seven and died. In between she lived differently, furiously, imaginatively on some level halfway to her Mister God whom she saw everywhere except in churches for which she had no use; she was a remarkable conceptualizer and had a wonderful way with words, images, numbers, configurations, relationships; some thought she was ""fey"" or a ""bloody genius."" At other times she was just a plain urchin with lots of street smarts--""Wot's he make us with asses for if we can't say it."" Anna was--Anna is--a sassy, startling, ineffably appealing phenomenon and the still living proof that it is a little child who can lead us best. Look for her.

Pub Date: Sept. 29, 1975

ISBN: 0345327225

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1975

Categories: NONFICTION