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One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life
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One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Carr, Pat

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Carr spent her childhood next to a Japanese relocation camp in Wyoming in the 1940s, grew up to pass for black in 1950s Texas, and started teaching college in the Jim Crow South of the 1960s. In a series of single-page episodes, she distills glimpses of the people, places, and moments that provided the fabric and fuel of her writing.

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  • Title One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life
  • Author Carr, Pat
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock
  • Date 2010-11-15
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ01JVPN_ns
  • ISBN 9780896727168 / 0896727165
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Life Writings
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 21st century, Carr, Pat M.
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010035080
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the jacket flap

Pat Carr may be the only person in the United States who spent her childhood next door to a Japanese relocation camp in Wyoming in the 1940s, grew up to pass for black in 1950s Texas, started teaching college in the Jim Crow South of the 1960s, and crossed paths with scores of other authors over half a century's journey as a professional writer.

But universal truth is found in every writer's singular experience, and Carr's memoir illuminates the path for others who have chosen the writing life. "Everything we do, everywhere we've been, influences us," Carr believes. Pacing her revealing memoir as a series of single-page episodes, she offers distilled glimpses of the people, places, and moments that made a lasting impression and provided the fabric and fuel of her writing.

At the same time Carr's pages reveal her attempts to find the authentic centers of her life: relationships with family, friends, lovers, fellow writers; struggles with racial and gender discrimination; and above all her writing identity.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2010, Page 12
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/04/2010, Page 0

About the author

Pat Carr has taught creative writing and literature in universities across the South. She is the author of fifteen books, including The Women in the Mirror, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and more than a hundred short stories in the Southern Review, the Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, and other publications. She lives in northwest Arkansas.