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The art of memoir by Mary Karr · Booklabria

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The art of memoir

AutobiographyAuthorship

The art of memoir

Name: The art of memoir
Author: Mary Karr

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First published: 2015
Language: English
Editions: 4

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Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.

Subjects: Autobiography
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Biography as a literary form

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