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More memoir is what we need.
His personal encounters with the dark side of travel carry the book, which is more memoir than exposé.
And so the book evolves into one more memoir of traumas past, not much better and not much worse than all the others out there.
Perhaps the distinction wouldn't matter if "American Daughter" were more memoir than biography, more about Elizabeth and less about Betty Kendall.
Lingeman's experiences with the Army Counter Intelligence Corps from 1954 through 1956 begin and conclude "The Noir Forties," but otherwise his is straight history, while "The Entertainer" is more memoir, interweaving Talbot's family story with the portrait of Lyle as actor and emblem.
Hadley's gift for conveying adolescence's "pent-up articulacy" recalls the sensibility of the author of a slim book, more memoir than novel, called "The Devil in the Flesh," written by a supernally sensitive French teenager, Raymond Radiguet, who died of typhoid in 1923 at the age of 20.
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She published two more memoirs, "Appleby House" (2003) and "My Holidays" (2004).
Yet that system stays intact, even as more memoirs by doctors-turned-patients keep being written.
Maybe we need more memoirs on this subject, since an explosion of Alzheimer's is forecast for the boomer generation.
I told myself I wasn't going to write about any more memoirs, at least not for a while.
More memoirs than ever are being published, and last year they even outpaced first novels, 295 to 227.
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