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The art of memoir
Mary Karr · 2015 · 256 pages
AutobiographyBiography as a literary formAuthorshipnyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2015-10-04New York Times bestsellerNew York Times reviewed
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About this book
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.
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