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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative Trade paperback - 2002

by VIVIAN GORNICK

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Taking readers on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, and Marguerite Duras.

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  • Title The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
  • Author VIVIAN GORNICK
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date September 2002
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 325789
  • ISBN 9780374528584 / 0374528586
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.52 x 5.06 x 0.49 in (19.10 x 12.85 x 1.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Rhetoric, Autobiography - Authorship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002026415
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.949

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Vivian Gornick's books include Fierce Attachments, Approaching Eye Level, and The End of the Novel of Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998. She lives in New York City.