[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish List Request - Soldier's Heart by Elizabeth Samet
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:13:05 -0800 (PST)
I think I read a review in the NY Times, too. It
sounds like very interesting book.
G.Cindy
--- "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If anyone can scan this book, I'll validate it.
>
> Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace
> and War at West Point, by
> Elizabeth Samet.
>
> Non-fiction. The Wall Street Journal just ran a
> very positive review on it.
>
> Here's a short synopsis.
>
> Elizabeth Samnet is a civilian who teaches English
> at the U.S. Army military
> academy at West Point. In this book, she relates to
> the reader the flavor of
> what it's like to teach a subject few would think is
> relevant to future army
> officers: poetry, and literature. She talks about
> her students, her military
> colleagues who teach alongside her, and about how
> the students that keep in
> touch with her develop and change as they advance in
> their military careers.
> One of the reviewers at Amazon describes the book as
> "a mini-memoir and
> mini-autobiography. Most of all it is a long
> reflection on the relationship
> between literature and life, literature and the
> military, [and] literature and war."
>
> Judy s.
> cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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