An edition of The situation and the story (2001)

The situation and the story

the art of personal narrative

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An edition of The situation and the story (2001)

The situation and the story

the art of personal narrative

1st ed.
  • 18 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

"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 reliable narrator who will tell the story that needs to be told? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks, and answers. Using some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Vivian Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, and Oscar Wilde.".

"This book, which grew out of fifteen years of teaching in M.F.A. programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
165

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Cover of: The Situation and the Story
The Situation and the Story
Oct 01, 2019, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance
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Cover of: Escribir narrativa personal
Escribir narrativa personal
2003, Paidós
in Spanish
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Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
Cover of: The situation and the story
The situation and the story: the art of personal narrative
2002, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English - New ed. for writers, teachers, and students, 1st pbk. ed.
Cover of: The Situation and the Story
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Cover of: The situation and the story
The situation and the story: the art of personal narrative
2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/492
Library of Congress
PR756.A9 G67 2001, PR756.A9G67 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
165 p. ;
Number of pages
165

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Open Library
OL3942879M
Internet Archive
situationstoryar00gorn
ISBN 10
0374167338
LCCN
2001023065
OCLC/WorldCat
45835606
Library Thing
383582
Goodreads
1999890

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