Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market |
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| Author:
| Rak, Julie |
| Series title: | Life Writing Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55458-941-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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From James Frey's A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way readers try to understand major events in terms of individual experiences.
From James Frey's A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way readers try to understand major events in terms of individual experiences.