Kathy S. reviewed on 8/12/2009 + 61 more book reviews

Beryl Markham is a magnificent, brilliant, talented writer.If you are a student of creative writing , journalism ,or simply a lover of a well written book, I beg you to read this book and anything else she,herself,has written.
Ernest Hemingway wrote a letter to Maxwell Perkins and spoke of this book, "WEST WITH THE NIGHT".Let his words be the review :

"Did you read Beryl Markham's book,WEST WITH THE NIGHT? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's logbook.As it is, SHE HAS WRITTEN SO WELL,and marvelously well,that I WAS COMPLETELY ASHAMED OF MYSELF AS A WRITER.I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words,picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing the together and sometimes making an okay pigpen.But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers.The only parts of it that I know about personally,on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true....I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book." ( ERNEST HEMINGWAY)

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