My Life with Tolstoy

It was an ill-advised journey. You don’t go to Jamaica in August unless you grew up there. Too hot. And those roosters.
By David Gilmour
Memoir · From the July/August 2006 magazine
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3 comment(s)

AnonymousDecember 17, 2008 15:50 EST

great piece! i heart Tolstoy.

Carlotta JamesJanuary 16, 2011 16:07 EST

Reading David's Gilmour's wonderfully descriptive piece on Tolstoy, I can almost feel how the love-affair started.

AnonymousMay 04, 2012 15:14 EST

As a joke I used to say to my patients with back pain, go to bed with Tolstoy\'s War and Peace and when you have finished it, your back pain will be gone. That was before I read it and now I would add and you will be in love with Tolstoy.

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