Situation and the Story The Art of Personal Narrative

Name: Situation and the Story The Art of Personal Narrative
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ISBN: 9780374528584

ISBN-10: 0374528586

ISBN-13: 9780374528584

Edition: 2002

Authors: Vivian Gornick

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A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.14" wide x 7.55" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English