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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100874779227

ISBN-139780874779226

eBay Product ID (ePID)353930

Product Key Features

Number of Pages368 Pages

Publication NameYour Life As Story : Discovering the New Autobiography and Writing Memoir As Literature

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

SubjectAuthorship, Literary, Composition & Creative Writing

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorTristine Rainer

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight13.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-010091

Reviews"A compelling sourcebook for all writers interested in putting their life stories down on paper . . . at once encouraging, forceful, and thoroughly convincing." -- Booklist " Your Life as Story is like a French dessert: rich and luscious, to be slowly devoured and savored for all it offers." -- Writers Connection "A book both practical and inspiring. Rainer knows how to shape autobiography into art, and she shares this knowledge with clairty, enthusiasm, and a knack for choosing writers' words that best illustrate her point." --Bernard Cooper, personal essayist and memoirist, author of Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum Memoirs

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Edition DescriptionReprint

Table Of Content1. The Story Only You Can Tell 2. The Evolution of a New Autobiography 3. What Is a Story? 4. A Story Depends on How You Slice It 5. The Nine Essential Elements of Story Structure 6. Genres of the Self 7. Tricks Memory Plays on You and Tricks You Can Play on It 8. Finding Your Voice 9. Portraying Yourself: You Are Your Hero 10. Portraying Others: Casting Your Story from Life 11. Truth in Autobiographic Writing 12. How to Write What You Dare Not Say 13. Dealing with Your Dark Side 14. Writing the Body 15. Theme: String for Your Pearls 16. Scenepearls 17. Anatomy of a Scene: Description, Inner Responses, Dialog, and Structure 18. Jumping and Leaping through Time 19. Humor 20. Dressing Up before Going Out 21. Emotional, Legal, and Ethical Concerns 22. Finishing the Unfinished Story Appendices: 1. Forming or Finding a Memoir Group 2. Selling Your Story for Fame and Fortune and Other Good Alternatives Bibliography of Autobiographic Works and Critical Works on Memoir Cited in the Text Index

SynopsisIn Your Life As Story , autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others. Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching, Rainer shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life's scattered experiences. Most important, she explains how to treasure the struggles in your past and discover the meaning within those experiences to capture the unique myth at work in your life.

LC Classification NumberCT25.R34 1998