The story has three interwoven narratives, reflecting one another: the memoir of 82-year-old Iris Chase, whose sister, Laura, was the author of a novel, The Blind Assassin, and died tragically just after the end of the war when she drove her car off a bridge.
Despite the book's occasional flush of naïve charm, it is hard to think of another memoir that so determinedly assassinates the character of its author.
Estevez fictionalised the source material in order to give Sheen's character a bereavement to match Strayed's, but the film is actually an adaptation of another memoir, Jack Hitt's Off the Road.
XXXXp I KNOW YOU WANT YOUR ASHES IN THE CROSS Between August and February, Pup's deterioration continued apace, though he managed to get started on yet another book, a memoir of his friendship with Ronald Reagan.
As a cultural icon, the pressures of undertaking another memoir activated her most primal fear: that she would disappoint people.
Now, I know how some will react to another memoir by a former member of a dead government.
More interesting is the memoir of another might-have-been, Ann Widdecombe's Strictly Ann (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £20).
The subtitle of Korda's "Another Life" is "A Memoir of Other People" and the book is overlong in the way that long, boozy publishing lunches are overlong, but the stories are entertaining and even instructive.
One might have considered that a sufficiency, but here comes another, this one a memoir of their friendship over 30 years and a reckoning of Peppiatt's own development in his mentor's shadow.
