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Your Life as Story: Discovering the New Autobiography and Writing Memoir as Literature Paperback - 1998
by Tristine Rainer
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In Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others. Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching, Rainer shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life's scattered experiences. Most important, she explains how to treasure the struggles in your past and discover the meaning within those experiences to capture the unique myth at work in your life.
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- Title Your Life as Story: Discovering the New Autobiography and Writing Memoir as Literature
- Author Tristine Rainer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Trade Paperb
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-04-13
- ISBN 9780874779226 / 0874779227
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.91 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.31 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Report writing, Autobiography - Authorship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010091
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.066
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"A compelling sourcebook for all writers interested in putting their life stories down on paper . . . at once encouraging, forceful, and thoroughly convincing."
Booklist
"Your Life as Story is like a French dessert: rich and luscious, to be slowly devoured and savored for all it offers."
Writers Connection
"A book both practical and inspiring. Rainer knows how to shape autobiography into art, and she shares this knowledge with clairty, enthusiasm, and a knack for choosing writers' words that best illustrate her point."
Bernard Cooper, personal essayist and memoirist, author of Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum Memoirs
Booklist
"Your Life as Story is like a French dessert: rich and luscious, to be slowly devoured and savored for all it offers."
Writers Connection
"A book both practical and inspiring. Rainer knows how to shape autobiography into art, and she shares this knowledge with clairty, enthusiasm, and a knack for choosing writers' words that best illustrate her point."
Bernard Cooper, personal essayist and memoirist, author of Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum Memoirs
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