Great Regulars: This realization, this strange dislocation,

struck me again when I picked up "The John Lennon Letters" (Little, Brown: 392 pp., $29.99), a collection of 285 letters, postcards and inscriptions, edited and with an accompanying text by Beatle historian Hunter Davies. I can do without Davies' commentary; if you know the Lennon story, there is little here that's new. But the letters offer an opportunity to see Lennon less as icon than as human being.

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: Remembering John Lennon through his letters (and postcards)

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