[ebooktalk] Re: MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A BOOK
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:38:05 +0000
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.
>
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