His memoir evokes a particular African childhood that inspired me to think of my own – as influenced by a fictional Empire as it was by political turmoil.
Like Haynes's film "Safe," her memoir evokes the mood of horror without the genre's opportunities for relief, and it allows illness along with its supposed remedies to be read both as an escape and as an isolating, suffocating captivity.
This warm memoir evokes the sounds and smells and tastes of a rigorous life that spanned the boom days of the '20s and the economic hardships of the Dust Bowl.
Two other memoirs evoke their authors' childhoods — each marked by the death of a parent — with emotional and sensory precision.
Radio dramatisation of Maya Angelou's iconic debut memoir, beautifully evoking her life as a child in the Deep South with her grandmother in the 1930s.
Gilder begins the story of quantum physics in the early 20th century, using dialogue reconstructed from letters, papers and memoirs to evoke confrontations among the players.
Yue and Farrow, who also collaborated on "Music, Food and Love," a memoir for adults, evoke how Little Leap Forward bears witness with the eye of a poet, the ear of a musician and the transformative imagination of a storyteller.
It was the magic of his writing, expressed most powerfully in his valedictory Memoir (2005), to evoke the soft breath of the Irish language, which he knew intimately, while making the complex, and sometimes painful, translation to the dominant cadences of the English.
In turn place names become effective bonds between people and places evoking nostalgic reflections and memoirs of personal experiences.
His theological memoir, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery, evokes the hidden dynamics of ministry in a small-town parish.
