[ebooktalk] Re: MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A BOOK
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:51:35 +0000
thanks as ever Shell.
On 29 Oct 2013, at 22:41, Shell wrote:
> I've attached it to this email Ian.
> Shell.
>
>
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> From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:38 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A BOOK
>
> > thanks Trish, anyone got a copy they can bung my way please?
> > On 29 Oct 2013, at 09:47, Trish Talbot wrote:
> >
> >> Ian, Thanks for the recommendation. Wally Lamb is a writer who is
> >> starting to interest me a lot, and the one you recommend sounds worth
> >> trying.
> >>
> >> Right, here goes:
> >> "My Dear, I wanted To Tell You" is mostly set in the first world war, and
> >> is concerned primarily with two men, one who is from a working class
> >> background and works his way up through the ranks to become a captain, the
> >> other who is from an upper class background, and with those close to them.
> >> Although there is a great deal of description of conditions in the
> >> battlefields, it is centred on the feelings and emotions of the two men
> >> and their troops, while also telling of the feelings, frustrations and
> >> daily lives of those left behind - a wife who struggles to cope without
> >> guidance from her husband, a girl who thought her relationship with her
> >> boyfriend was secure, but finds things are not quite as she thought, and a
> >> woman who throws herself into nursing. The book has some graphic
> >> descriptions of plastic surgery as it is carried out in the war years, and
> >> of the patients who undergo the treatment, and one patient's struggle
> >> afterwards to live a "Normal" life.
> >>
> >> That's the best I can do, and I probably haven't done it justice, but as
> >> everyone on this list is well aware, it is one of my favourite books, and
> >> was certainly the best thing I read in 2012.
> >> Trish.
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
> >> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:39 AM
> >> Subject: [ebooktalk] MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A BOOK
> >>
> >>
> >> I've not read My Dear and would appreciate recommendations and a brief
> >> description. It was quite heavily recommended to me on my amazon Kindle
> >> account, but these are usually considerably off beam.
> >>
> >> But I also wanted to recommend something which `i read a couple of years
> >> ago. The book was I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. It's kind of
> >> in the mould of some John Erving titles but very much in a class of its
> >> own. It concerns the relationship between two brothers and the back story
> >> of their family=y which is fascinating. It is quite long but very well
> >> worth the commitment.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> <Young, Louisa - My Dear I Wanted To Tell You.txt>
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