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Memoir
As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir.
Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is ...more
Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is ...more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
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date: Apr 02, 2019
The beloved Comma Queen returns with a buoyant and charming book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
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Availability: 50 copies available, 492 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 08 - Jan 06, 2019
Countries available: U.S.
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
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date: Jan 22, 2019
A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most.
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Availability: 73 copies available, 894 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 01 - Dec 13, 2018
Countries available: U.S.
Desert Soliloquy: A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert
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The true and hilarious story of an autistic adventurer who spent 29 days living in the desolate wasteland of the Avawatz Mountain Range.
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Availability: 50 copies available, 91 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 08 - Dec 20, 2018
Countries available: U.S.
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Author of The Fact of a Body
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which will be published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan) in May 2017. It is also forthcoming from publishers internationally. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Rona Jaffe Award recipient, she has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Her essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Iowa Review, and many other publications, and were recognized “notable” in Best American Essays 2013, 2015, and 2016.
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I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.
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― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
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You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.
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― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
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