The Art of Memoir
eBook - 2015
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas.) In The Art of Memoir, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black belt sinner," providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work ...in the genre.Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told—...
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HarperCollins
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- English
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File Size | 411 MB |
ISBN | 9780062223081 |
Release Date | 9/15/2015 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B00RLQXBYS |
Release Date | 9/15/2015 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 396 MB |
ISBN | 9780062223081 |
Release Date | 9/15/2015 |