Inventing The Truth
Book description
For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs-or is thinking about writing one-this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.
The events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing the Truth offers wisdom from nine…
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This book is like a rainbow. In this book of essays, one color of (nonfiction) prose builds upon another. Its layered literary colors, like a rainbow, form a spectrum of writing whose whole is far more than its parts. A rainbow can disappear in a blink., but not the written word.
Inventing the Truth has 9 colors to its rainbow. They are the superb writings of Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, Alfred Kazin, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Eileen Simpson. Each essay illuminates a lesson from and about life. Their compilation is…
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