But while many of the names are familiar, there's a refreshing intimacy and frankness in their depictions.
There was a genuineness and frankness in her approach.
But while I admire his honesty, courage, and frankness in confronting Klay's mistake in public, I believe that Mychal overstepped his boundaries as a father in the manner in which he rebuked his son.
I thought it was a completely remarkable book and that it, in a sense, redefines autobiography because it has an honesty and frankness that people in the future are going to find it difficult to match.
While Zoe's character lacks some of the refreshing innocence and frankness found in Jamie, the protagonist in My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Zoe is still a great storyteller, even if her way of viewing the world isn't quite so original.
Later, he accused the scientists involved of "lacking in candour and frankness as to the validity of their conclusions".
She's using "sleeping" euphemistically, and there's a surprising sexual frankness in the book, particularly for a centenarian society girl raised in Greenwich, Conn.
In the early stages he was, wrote the squad vice captain, Charles Oliver, with striking frankness in the tour account co-authored by himself and Tindill "our weakest tackler" and he played in the first All Black defeat by a club team, at Swansea.
Khrushchev really meant the promises that were spelled out with such excruciating frankness in the programme.
Cavafy had a model for sexual frankness in the Greek Anthology, that remarkable compilation of ancient insults, boasts, epigrams, and erotica, much of it recovered from mummy wrappings and pottery shards.
But Mr Blair's long leave-taking has been accompanied by what he himself describes as "lurching into total frankness": in the past couple of months he has blamed gun crime on black culture, for example, and said it is a mistake to put the civil liberties of terrorist suspects first.
