Your Life as Story

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06692 EAN: 9780874779226 ISBN: 0874779227 Label: Tarcher Manufacturer: Tarcher Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: 1998-04-13 Publisher: Tarcher Studio: Tarcher
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Editorial Reviews: In 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.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Beautiful and insightful Comment: This book is beautifully and thoughtfully written. It has given me a different twist on writing my story. I have used it for examples in teaching my classes. Customer Rating: Summary: Buy this book if you're writing a memoir Comment: This is THE book for anyone struggling with the structure of a memoir. I've been working on mine for three years. If I had read Tristine Rainer's book before I started, I could have saved myself the first two. Customer Rating: Summary: Telling Painful Life Stories Comment: Ranier is a pioneer in the approach to autobiography that encourages writers to exorcise psychic ghosts as they reflect on their experiences. She also explores the tricky relationship between fiction and non-fiction in creating a truthful life story, encouraging writers to use fiction techniques to tell deep or difficult truths (but not to try to fool readers: let them know that fact and fantasy will mingle in the memoir). Customer Rating: Summary: Wonderfully written techniques.... Comment: This book does not disappoint. There is something for everyone in this book whether you are an amateur writer or seasoned writer. You will discover a lot about yourself by the end of the book, and her writing style is superb. I give this book my highest recommendation. Customer Rating: Summary: Pick out the high spot Comment: Tristine Rainer's book takes the writer of autobiographical scraps to another level. She defines a memoir, lets you know that's what you really want to write, and tells you how to choose the part of your life to assemble into the memoir. What did you learn from? What's the peak experience, high or low? Build from there! Her advice could seem self-evident, but in reading memoirs, I wish more had been written with her structural advice in mind. Even David Sedaris, who sends me rolling on the floor, writes books that vary from boring to spendid, without that arc of story that I respond so well to when I read memoirs. Read this one and take it to heart, memoirists of the world! More Reviews