Not Quite What I Was Planning, Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Name: Not Quite What I Was Planning, Revised and Expanded Deluxe Edition Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
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ISBN: 9780061713712

ISBN-10: 0061713716

ISBN-13: 9780061713712

Edition: Revised

Authors: Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser

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Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity-six words at a time.When Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half-dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way, too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving.From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/21/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.12" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Rachel Fershleiser is SMITH's memoir editor and has written for the Village Voice , the New York Press , Print , and the National Post . Rachel lives in New York City.