Art of memoir / Mary Karr.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Crookston Public Library | 809.9359 KAR (Text) | 33500012150611 | Main | Available | - |
| Moorhead Public Library | 809.9359 KAR (Text) | 33500012150629 | Main | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 0062223062
- ISBN: 9780062223067
- Physical Description: xxiii, 229 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages ... Read More |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Caveat emptor -- Preface: Welcome to my chew toy ... Read More |
| Summary, etc.: | Karr breaks down the key elements of great ... Read More |
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| Subject: | Autobiography > Authorship. Biography as a literary form |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-226). | |
| 520 | . | ‡aKarr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aCaveat emptor -- Preface: 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 pat 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. |
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