6/11/2023 0 Comments Message from nam by danielle steel![]() ![]() Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections. While the mega-selling author isn't at the top of her form, her fans will enjoy the emotional firestorm as Paxton reels from a series of tragic blows, some concerning her hotheaded lover, Sergeant Tony Campobello, a POW. ![]() Steel's undemanding style is too often marred by gushing, breathless prose that trivializes serious events. When Peter is killed in Vietnam, grief-stricken Paxton wangles a ticket to the front as a journalist, where, with an initial boost from a tough, fatherly AP correspondent, she knocks out an acclaimed column for seven years. Her heroine, feisty Savannah native Paxton Andrews, disdains the role of a Southern belle and flees to UC Berkeley, where she pursues a journalism major and instantly falls in love with law student Peter Wilson, son of a newspaper tycoon. ![]() In an attempt at seriousness, Steel awkwardly shoehorns in a veritable almanac of historical facts and such painful milestones as the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. Message from Nam Kindle Edition by Danielle Steel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4.7 out of 5 stars 690 ratings Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 8.03 205 Used from 1.00 11 New from 8.02 15 Collectible from 4.75 Paperback 19.95 1 Used from 7.85 1 New from 19. ![]() An audacious-and ill-conceived-departure from her usual glitzy settings, Steel's ( Daddy Star ) 25th novel focuses on the Vietnam War, though it merely skims the surface of that turbulent era. ![]()
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