Sentence examples for episodic memoir from inspiring English sources
He collects funny stories the way a magician might collect new tricks, and there are many examples in his latest book, "The Summer of a Dormouse" (Viking), an episodic memoir in which Sir John -- playwright, screenwriter, novelist, lawyer and general bon vivant -- describes what life is like when your body is failing but your mind is young.
"We're more likely to get an episodic memoir like Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles: Volume One,' a nonlinear, incomplete account of select key moments in his life and career," he wrote.
It is also organized around a single, unified plot, which distinguished it from Defoe's more episodic "Moll Flanders" (1722), a pseudo-memoir that recounts its protagonist's varied and largely illicit pursuits, from her inauspicious beginnings through her late years in the colonies.
And, appropriately, it is also a memoir of a continent, told as a series of remarkable episodic adventures.
In fact, due to the episodic nature of the writing, The Cry of the Go-Away Bird reads a lot like memoir.
A memoir within a memoir.
Among the memoirs from male performers, two stand out: Elvis Costello's Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink (Viking, £25) is overlong and episodic but also has moments of real insight and revelation.
It makes working lives episodic.
The plot is necessarily episodic.
It's really very episodic".
