About this title: A collection of essays on the practice of memoir-writing, with contributions by Frank McCourt, Russell Banks, Alfred Kazin, and Annie Dillard.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780395445266ISBN:0395445264
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780395445266ISBN:0395445264
Description: Good. Hardcover. Modest wear. Pages lightly tanned, clean and unmarked aside from previous owner's name on endpaper. Binding tight. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780395483718ISBN:0395483719
Description: Fine. Six American writers discuss the craft of the memoir and the problems and pleasures of trying to reinvent the past. Contributors include: Annie Dillard, Toni Morrison, Russell Baker, Alfred Kazin, and Lewis Thomas. Edited with a memoir and an introduction by William Zinsser. Softcover, 172 pp. Excellent condition. read more
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, corner crease front cover, crescent shaped crease to top edge of rear cover, owner's inscription on ffep, and other light shopwear. read more
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps have only slight wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. read more
"I used this text in a college writing course, Approaches to Teaching Writing. It's a great sampling of various authors' approaches and tensions in the writing of memoir."
"Zinsser's introduction promises more than the book delivers. I enjoyed a few of the commentaries on process, but I thought less of Dillard after reading her comments on her own writings. Also, a few were very self-congratulatory. But, what did I expect from a book with authors talking "about" their writing rather than reading their actual writing?"
"I read this book expecting a lot and I wasn't disappointed. The introductions, which are usually long and boring and something I skip half the time, was excellent and informative, and each chapter was like a different facet of the whole memoir writing experience--motives, process, results, consequences. My favortite chapter was by Frank McCourt, and I got a lot from Annie Dillard's chapter even though her approach, philosophy and just about everything she said is different than mind. I really like this and I'm glad I read it. I want to read many of the books mentioned in this book."
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