In 1967 Ackerley left his diaries to Francis King, whose selection for this first paperback edition, while covering his friendships with Forster and Sassoon, concentrates on Ackerley's extraordinary relationship with his sister Nancy, his ancient, twice-married Aunt Bunny, and his Alsatian bitch. It is a moving story in which he found himself inextricably bound to his clinging, sad, and sometimes mentally ill sister. In essence theirs was a love story - even if one of resentments and jealous demands on her side and of exasperation and guilt on his. J.R Ackerley wrote five books: "The Prisoners of War", "Hindoo Holiday", "My Dog Tulip", "We Think the World of You" and "My Father and Myself".
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a bonus for Ackerley lovers,
By m morrissey "Mary morrissey" (L.A., CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Sister and Myself: Diaries (Oxford letters & memoirs) (Paperback)
If you have loved any of JR Ackerley's books, you will love them all, and while this is more a collection of journal entries that may have made a book eventually, it's just as beautifully written and funny and lovable as anything else of the man everyone wishes had written more books. So buy it in anticipation of more of what we can never get enough. If you needed it, incidentally, this is Ackerley as St. Joe or even Joe Doormat. You'll either admire him more or respect him less depending on your own point of view about . . . man's obligation to sis.
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