Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir

In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares...
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Author: Beth Kephart
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Language: English
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Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir by Kephart, Beth

Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir

BD$38.44

Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir

BD$38.44
Author: Beth Kephart
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.

Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning points in her life, Beth Kephart has been both blessed and bruised by the genre. In Handling the Truth, she thinks out loud about the form--on how it gets made, on what it means to make it, on the searing language of truth, on the thin line between remembering and imagining, and, finally, on the rights of memoirists. Drawing on proven writing lessons and classic examples, on the work of her students and on her own memories of weather, landscape, color, and love, Kephart probes the wrenching and essential questions that lie at the heart of memoir.

A beautifully written work in its own right, Handling the Truth is Kephart's memoir-writing guide for those who read or seek to write the truth.

Author: Beth Kephart
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781592408153
Audience: Young Adult


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Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2013 pg. 94
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2013
Booklist 08/01/2013 pg. 20

About the Author
Beth Kephart's first memoir was a National Book Award finalist and was named best book of the year (1998) by several publications. Her subsequent four memoirs earned her additional acclaim and standing among memoir readers. A respected reviewer, essayist, and blogger, Kephart chaired juries for both the National Book Awards and the PEN First Nonfiction Awards. A veteran writing teacher, she currently teaches memoir at the University of Pennsylvania.

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