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Author : James Phelan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801442971
Phelan's compelling readings cover important theoretical ground by introducing a valuable distinction between disclosure functions and narrator functions.
Author : Jane Taylor McDonnell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0140265309
"Writing is a second chance at life," writes Jane McDonnell. "I think all writing constitutes an effort to establish our own meaningfulness, even in the midst of sadness and disappointment." In Living to Tell the Tale, McDonnell draws on this impulse, as well as on her own experiences as a writer and teacher of memoir, to give us what should become the definitive book on writing "crisis memoirs" and other kinds of personal narrative. She provides specific techniques and advice to help the writer discover his or her inner voice, recognize—and then silence—the inner censor, begin a narrative, and develop it with such aids as photographs and documents. Citing many landmark works such as Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, as well as unpublished writings, McDonnell shows how writers can recreate past experiences through memories, and imaginatively reshape material into the story that needs to be told. Each chapter concludes with exercises to help the writer grapple with particular problems, such as trying to write about experiences that are only partly recalled. McDonnell also offers a list of recommended reading. • Memoirs, such as Mary Karr's The Liars' Club (Penguin) have hit bestseller lists nationwide during the past year, and are of great interest to aspiring writers.
Author : Nick Carter
Publisher : Bird Street Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1939457041
This book is Nick Carter’s autobiography and self-help hybrid in which he chronicles his struggles with a dysfunctional family and the unimaginable rigors of becoming an internationally successful pop-star at the age of 12. From his battle with addiction to serious health complications and the pain of his younger sister’s tragic death, Nick leaves nothing to the imagination and offers true and heartfelt advice to help readers overcome obstacles in their own lives.
Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, Colombian
ISBN : 1400041066
At first glance, Garcia Mrquez's vivid and detailed portrait of his early life appears to be testament to a photographic memory. Yet as he explains in the epigraph, "Life isn't what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it to tell it."
Author : Walter Kathan
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Alcoholics
ISBN : 1434919560
Begun as a suggestion of his psychotherapist as a series of autobiographical vignettes, Walter Kathan's story is a moving portrait of a man struggling to escape the grip of addiction and mental illness in pursuit of a normal life. Kathan offers an unsparing account of his hellish journey to the depths of madness and despair as he fought to reclaim his life and overcome his demons.
Author : George Jones
Publisher : Dell
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804180865
Boozing. Womanizing. Brawling. Singing. For the last forty years George Jones has reigned as the country's king--the singer many have called the Frank Sinatra of country. And for most of that time, his career has been marked by hard-living, hard-loving, and hard luck. From his early east Texas recordings through his marriage with Tammy Wynette to his latest acclaim as a solid citizen and "high-tech red-neck," Americans have been fascinated with Jones, never even knowing whether he's going to show up for his next concert. Now, in I Lived To Tell It All, George Jones supplies a no-holds-barred account of his excesses and ecstasies. How alcohol ruled his life and performances. How violence marred many friendships and relationships. How money was something to be made but never held on to. And, finally, how the love of a good woman can ultimately change a man, redeem him, and save his life.
Author : Eddy Douglas Brown
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595171729
Spanning approximately forty years, these memoirs are tied together with the thematic thread of a writer-to-be coming of age. They chronicle his discoveries of nature, family, love, community and self. For several years he becomes immersed in music as a member of an R&B and jazz band. During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement he narrowly escapes, but has a close look at death by the hands of law enforcement officers in of all places, a college campus. He drops out of college, fights off drug abuse and winds up in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. After regaining his equilibrium, he continues his higher education, and realizes some measure of personal success. During this time he is recruited by the CIA. The final piece, "Rewind", reveals a mature, stable, self-aware man who knows who he is and where he fits into the world as he now sees it-a still-racist world that is reluctant to embrace him, but one in which he is determined and prepared to realize his long-recurring dream of being a writer. Engaging and articulate, these memoirs go beyond being one person's life excerpts, to reflecting American history and culture, and human search for self.
Author : Susan Merrifield
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480955035
Surviving and Alcoholic Marriage and Living to Tell About It By: Susan Merrifield Surviving an Alcoholic Marriage and Living to Tell About It is a true story. Susan Merrifield details her long, difficult relationship with an alcohol-abusing husband. Through her journey, Merrifield provides advice to others who might be in a similar situation, hoping they will learn from her experience. This book does not necessarily give us a happy ending or a complete storyline that we so often crave. Instead, Merrifield follows a winding path that refuses to flirt with magical realism. As we learn Merrifield’s personality, and the obstacles that stood in her way, we come to respect the everyday triumphs that defined her long, difficult relationship with a man controlled by the bottle.
Author : Jessica Shaver
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 1999-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781561797110
Gianna: aborted.nd lived to tell about it.
Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101911158
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.