Sentence examples for less memoir from inspiring English sources

Now comes "Clean," less memoir than guide for those just entering the terrain Mr. Sheff knows so well.

Karl Rove's book Courage and Consequence is less memoir than hoax.

Is there any way in which your books are less memoirs and more diaries distributed among different characters?

It suffuses "Skyfaring", which is less a memoir than an enthusiast's meditation on the life of a pilot.

Prolific commentator and popular Australian feminist Clementine Ford's much-anticipated first book is less a memoir than a manifesto.

He never explains, however, why he could not bring himself to hunker down and write a more or less straightforward memoir.

That sort of battlefield observation cannot be learned from briefing books; it is what makes this less a memoir and more a how-to manual for anyone faced with a financial crisis.The author has always been something of an enigma.

It is less a memoir than a speaking wound — and understandably, because Greg Bellow was eight years old when his father told him that he and Greg's mother were separating.

It is less a memoir than a speaking wound and understandably, because Greg Bellow was eight years old when his father told him that he and Greg's mother were separating.

• In a more serious but no less readable memoir, Stephen B. Shepard, the founding dean of the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism and a former editor of Business Week, couples an account of his upbringing in the Bronx and education at City College with keen-eyed observations about a profession that has been undergoing a warp-speed transformation.

If the book has chimed with people around the world, it may well be because it is less a memoir about dying – though it doesn't shirk from either the emotion or the messiness of that – than a template for life.