Sentence examples for memoir like this from inspiring English sources

Insight is the linchpin of a spiritual coming-of-age memoir like this.

Not one for sentimentality, she opens her slender memoir like this: "I'm 12 years old, and this evening I'll be dead".

The prose moves as gracefully as any you've read, and feels entirely unforced, but one hasn't read memoir like this before - largely, one assumes, because very few other writers could keep their balance following such looping curves of thought.

Of course, if you happen not to be the king of Spain, you may be in a little trouble, to which Sirio replies, "What is so wrong with elite?" You'd expect a memoir like this one to be filled with shameless name-dropping and, of course, it is.

A memoir like this speaks directly to you, Reader, in a more vivid voice than a novel.

Why the hell didn't anybody speak up?" That's why people keep writing memoirs like this one, I think, and why I keep reading them.

(Yet as is so often the case in memoirs like this one, he never shows us the moment — which one imagines must have happened — when he realized: "I am so going to get a book out of this").

The memoir, like "The Tin Drum," is a coming-of-age story, a bildungsroman.

Now don't we all wish we could write a memoir like that? (Give it a try! Login and leave your six-word memoir in the Comments area below).

The driven, thwarted and not hugely likable woman at the center of this memoir-like novel, which takes as its central conceit the biological concept of matrilineal descent, is modeled on Kathleen Marie Bloor, the author's own mother.

The driven, thwarted and not hugely likable woman at the center of this memoir-like novel, which takes as its central conceit the biological concept of matrilineal descent, is modeled on Drabble's own mother.