PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

New York Times BestsellerThe project that captured a nation's imagination.The instructions were simple but the results were extraordinary.You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret fear betrayal desire confession or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him anonymously.The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling the cards reveal our deepest fears desires regrets and obsessions. Frank calls them "graphic haiku" beautiful elegant and small in structure but powerfully emotional.As Frank began posting the cards on his website PostSecret took on a life of its own becoming much more than a simple art project. It has grown into a global phenomenon exposing our individual aspirations fantasies and frailties -- our common humanity.Every day dozens of postcards still make their way to Frank with postmarks from around the world touching on every aspect of human experience. This extraordinary collection brings together the most powerful personal and beautifully intimate secrets Frank Warren has received -- and brilliantly illuminates that human emotions can be unique and universal at the same time.

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: William Morrow; First edition (November 29 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0060899190

ISBN-13: 978-0060899196

Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.1 x 10.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds