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Publisher: Harper
Author: Mary Karr
ISBN: 9780062223074
Year: 2016
Format: Paperback
Non fiction, Memoir
Art of Memoir
by
Mary Karr
Art of Memoir by
Mary Karr
Reviews
"Full of Karr's usual wit, compassion and, perhaps most reassuringly, self-doubt. Her fans should be delighted--and they can't go wrong reading the books she discusses, including her own"
Washington Post
Summary
In The Art of Memoir , she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre.
Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers’ experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr’s own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told— and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth.) As she breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, she breaks open our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminates the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.