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Dear Ines ... Dear Janet
Autor: George B Bookman
Dear Ines, Dear Janet is a unique correspondence between two women-one British and
one American-from totally different backgrounds who became friends and wrote to
each other over a period of 50 years.
Janet...
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Dear Ines, Dear Janet is a unique correspondence between two women-one British and
one American-from totally different backgrounds who became friends and wrote to
each other over a period of 50 years.
Janet Bookman was born to an immigrant Jewish family from Eastern Europe. Her father
spoke mainly Yiddish, and her mother had little formal education. Janet grew up in the
Bronx borough of New York City, found her way to Washington, married a news man
and raised two children.
Her friend, Ines Burrows, came from the British upper class, descended from founders
of The Times of London, and married a career diplomat who became Ambassador to
Turkey and NATO, and represented Britain in the Persian Gulf. He was knighted for his
work by the Queen.
The two women met in Washington soon after World War II, became close friends, and
wrote to each other over half a century until Ines died in 1997. Naturally they wrote about
family problems (each raised teenagers in the Sixties), but also about what was going on
in the world-Vietnam, U.S. and British elections, the glamorous life led by Ines and
events in Janet's more tranquil existence.
These letters give unusual insight into the lives of two very interesting and articulate
women-and into the qualities that can make for friendship-over the years and over
thousands of Trans-Atlantic miles.
- Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
- Rok vydania: 2006
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 280 x 210 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780595404216
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