From: Nina A Lindsay <NALINDSA>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 96 11:46 CDT

Excuse the sloppiness of this message, as my delete key doesn't seem to be functioning! I thought I'd slip in some last minute scommemnts about Frances Temples works. No one seemed to take a shot at the similarities between her contemporary and historical novels, but the overiding theme in all of them, it seems to beme, is rthe simple theme of being a foreigner. All of her characters take a journey in which they learn about lives that are radically different than their own. I would think that Frances' own childhood was a series of these types of journeys, just in the fact that she was a diplomat's daughter, and also in the way -- as we know, from her writing -- she was uniquely open, perceptive, and empathetic to many sotuations other than her own. These journeys she's taken and shared with us are journeys over places, social settings, political situations, and even time, as in her historical novels. Her books give me the strongest sense of "travelling" I've ever gotten in reading a book. I think that Frances Temple was one of the most effective "tour guides" of the imagination that we will ever find.
  Nina Lindsay Oakland, CA
Received on Mon 01 Jul 1996 11:46:00 AM CDT