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1 online resource |
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Caveat emptor -- Welcome to my chew toy -- The past's vigor -- The truth contract twixt writer and reader -- Why not to write a memoir : plus a pop quiz to protect the bleeding & box out the rigid -- A voice conjures the human who utters it -- Don't try this at home : the seductive, narcissistic count -- Sacred carnality -- How to choose a detail -- Hucksters, the deluded, and big fat liars -- Interiority and inner enemy : private agonies read deeper than external whammies -- On finding the nature of your talent -- The visionary Maxine Hong Kingston -- Dealing with beloveds (on and off the page) -- On information, facts, and data -- Personal run-ins with fake voices -- On book structure and the order of information -- The road to hell is paved with exaggeration -- Blind spots and false selves -- Truth hunger : the public and private burning of Kathryn Harrison -- Old-school technologies for the stalled novice -- Major reversals in Cherry and Lit -- Why memoirs fail -- An incomplete checklist to stave off dread -- Michael Herr : start in Kansas, end in Oz -- Against vanity : in praise of revision |
| Summary |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's -- and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, The Art of Memoir is an elegant and accessible exploration of one of today's most popular literary forms--a tour de force from an accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Karr, Mary -- Criticism and interpretation
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Karr, Mary
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Karr, Mary fast |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Personal Memoirs/
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LITERARY CRITICISM & COLLECTIONS/Books & Reading/
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0062223089 |
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9780062223081 |
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