Message from Nam

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| image = Danielle Steel - Message from Nam.jpeg

| caption = First edition

| author = Danielle Steel

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Romance novel

| publisher = Delacorte Press

| pub_date = 1990

| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)

| pages = 480 pp

| isbn = 0-440-20941-2

| oclc= 23669680

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Message from Nam is a romantic novel, written by American Danielle Steel and published by Dell Publishing in October 1990. It is Steel's 26th novel.

Plot

The novel follows Paxton Andrews, who is stationed in Vietnam as a journalist during the Vietnam War, focusing on the men she encounters and how her life and the lives of the people she encounters are changed forever.

Andrews has been heartbroken many times, having lost her father, two lovers, and a nanny to whom she was close. These tragedies have left her hopeless and despairing, but by going to Saigon for a third time she finds a love that will not fade away.{{cite book| author = Danielle Steel| title = Message from Nam| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=edvU1UKKNWoC| date = 1991-04-02| publisher = Dell Publishing| isbn = 978-0-440-20941-6 }}

Reception

The book was described by Publishers Weekly to be an "audacious and ill-conceived departure from her usual glitzy settings".[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0552135240 Publishers weekly], Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-23

Film adaptation

The novel was adapted into a television film, directed by Paul Wendkos, that was broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1993.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

References

Category:1990 American novels

Category:American romance novels

Category:Novels by Danielle Steel

Category:American novels adapted into films

Category:Novels about journalists

Category:Novels set in Vietnam

Category:Novels set during the Vietnam War

Category:American novels adapted into television shows

Category:Delacorte Press books