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Title: Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean by Kate Montgomery, Hilary Liftin ISBN: 0-375-70367-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (52 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this book!
Comment: I read Dear Exile in one continous session--I couldn't put it down. It is funny, interesting, sad (the sections about teaching in poor Kenyan schools are heartbreaking) and just all around great. This book is going to appeal to a lot of people, I think. With people communicating so much by e-mail, one of the wonderful aspects of the book is fact that the authors actually wrote each other real letters-- long, thoughtful ones. Pretty amazing. Anyone who has ever stuggled to find the right job and the right mate and the right life will relate to Hilary's story, while anyone who has ever dreamed of running off and joining the Peace Corps will appreciate Kate's story. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Special Delivery
Comment: In an age of cell phones and e-mail and instant access, a pair of people who write long, detailed letters and mail them (with stamps!) seems unusual. And what letters! These are no slapdash, catty-chatty constructions, but rather articulate, vivid, thoughtful epistles between two people living very different lives in the 1990s.
The letters are real; they are the products of former Yale roommates Kate Montgomery and Hilary Liftin. Kate, recently married, moves to Kenya with her husband to teach English for the Peace Corps. Her narrative of life in Africa begins with stunned delight (giraffes walk by!). Increasingly, though, her letters begin to detail the awful conditions and debasement of the people there. We learn of rampant disease (Kate seems to catch every one of them), polluted water, and unsanitary schools where students are beaten mercilessly.
Hilary, from the other side of the ocean, relates her experience as a single woman looking for love, satisfying work, and a decent apartment in New York City. Her stories are funny, poignant, sometimes heartbreaking, and just as interesting as Kate's.
The best story of all, though, is that of the friendship that sustains and enriches these two passionate women across the miles.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Comment: A great book. I loved reading the letters between the two friends and their different styles of writing. I hope their friendship will always endure. I look foward to reading more by both. I've already read Candy and Me by Hilary. I hope to hear more from K8.
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Title: Candy and Me (A Love Story) by Hilary Liftin ISBN: 0743245733 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Mango Elephants in the Sun : How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin by Susana Herrera ISBN: 1570625727 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation by Robert Stock ISBN: 0898625955 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Single Wife: A Novel by Nina Solomon ISBN: 1565123824 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel by Lisa Alpine, Jacqueline Butler, Lauren Cuthbert, Lynn Ferrin, Carla King ISBN: 0762723777 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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