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Modern American Memoirs
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by Cort Conley and Annie Dillard
Sales Rank: 62687
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Cover Type: Paperback with 464 pages
Published by: Harper Perennial August 30, 1996
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0060927631
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060927639
Book Dimensions:
7.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
From Library Journal
Annie Dillard and publisher Cort Conley have collected excerpts from the memoirs of 35 20th-century American authors. The selections represent the best in autobiographical writing published between 1917 and 1992. Included are nine women and 26 men, both black and white, some better known than others, all distinguished writers and wonderful storytellers. Chris Offutt's "The Same River Twice" tells about the author's stint working in the circus; Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi" describes her participation in the 1963 Woolworth sit-in. The editors precede each entry with a biographical and contextual note. There's an opening essay on the art of the memoirist and an afterword listing additional classics in the genre. This rich collection serves as an introduction to the nation's best modern writers and a primer on the American experience. Highly recommended for all libraries.?Carol A. McAllister, Coll. of William and Mary Lib., Williamsburg, Va.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Booklist
In her introduction to this anthology of well-chosen excerpts from memoirs by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers, Dillard muses on the many forms memoirs take. The author is free to interpret his or her life in any way he or she chooses. Memoirists are shrewd editorialists, leaving out entire facets of their lives--husbands, wives, siblings, terrible habits, boring everydayness, outrageous behavior--anything that doesn't conform to the image they want to project. Many memoirs focus sharply on the author's childhood, that time in every life when even the most ordinary things loom menacingly or magically large. Some memoirs resemble fiction, others have the pleasing momentum of essays. Dillard and Conley have selected vibrant examples of all these approaches, showcasing the work of a distinctive and, in some cases, unexpected group of writers, including Wallace Stegner, Kate Simon, Maureen Howard, Frank Conroy, Richard Selzer, Harry Crews, Loren Eiseley, James Baldwin, Margaret Mead, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Whatever tinkering these writers may have done with the facts of their past, they've done nothing to conceal the truth of their lives which shines from every gorgeously, often courageously composed page. Donna Seaman
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Reader Reviews
This wonderful collection of autobiographical pieces is extraordinary in the variety of lives that are represented. I cover my eyes from Wallace Stegner's Saskatchewan dust and then I open them to witness the East River sunset from Barry Lopez' window. I sneak books out of a Memphis library with Richard Wright and then I'm with Cynthia Ozick digging out of a crate from the Traveling Library. The book's radiance comes not only from the rainbow of lives reflected but from the craftmanship, the nuts and bolts of changing the stuff of life into art. So many ways, so many self-less, ego-less ways to transform the personal into the universal, to say I am you and you are me and we are all.
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