Myself & strangers
a memoir of apprenticeship
by Graves, John
"In Myself and Strangers, the author of Goodbye to a River and other nonfiction classics recounts his long, winding journey toward becoming a writer in the years after world War II." "Drawing upon memory and his journals, Graves moves through his early days in Texas and his brief dramatic stint in the Pacific with the marines. The story starts in earnest with the year after the war, when his quest to find himself takes him to Mexico, where he punches out his young man's recollections on an old portable typewriter, beginning a lifelong habit of looking inward, of observation and note-taking. We follow him to Martha Foley's famous short fiction class at Columbia University, and then to Europe, where he spends nearly three years in 1950s Spain, part of the expat communities of Mallorca, Madrid, and Tenerife, keeping the journals that form the basis of this memoir."--BOOK JACKET.
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Myself & strangers: a memoir of apprenticeship
2005, University of Texas Press
in English
- 1st University of Texas Press ed.
0292709722 9780292709720
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Myself & strangers: a memoir of apprenticeship
2004, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
- 1st ed.
1400042224 9781400042227
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