Sentence examples for much memoir from inspiring English sources
It is as much memoir as art.
"Vanishing Point" argues for the demolition of the neat resolution of much memoir at the same time it embodies in its very form and freedom the literary and existential excitement of which the open-ended essay is capable.
The result of that quest is "Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town," a deeply unconventional book that is as much memoir as proper history.
Chastened by the furious response, he set out to investigate Turkey's ethnographic and historical entanglements; the result, as much memoir as history, is "a rare, remarkable feat," Joseph O'Neill wrote in the Book Review.
But Mr. Lins, dark-skinned and slender with intense eyes, likes to say that his book was based on "10 years of research and 30 years of life experience" and is as much memoir as novel.
"The question of how much memoir a biography should contain is one of the more interesting writing questions of the 21st Century," declares Sarah Cheever, the author and biographer of the poet EE Cummings.
(She doesn't think much of memoir as a genre: "I just don't know why everyone has to write about themselves").
And this simpler book, in any case, is occluded by a larger and far more complex enterprise, a work that is as much intellectual memoir as political essay.Mr Sullivan's religious conviction is the problem.
That trouble was her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, and what follows is not so much a memoir as a meditation about stories – how we tell them, why we need them, what they mean.
The same factor, he says, that unites the selection made in The Books in My Life, a much earlier memoir by his namesake, Henry Miller: "They were alive and they spoke to me!" Jonathan Coe.
As much a memoir as a primer on the vicissitudes of an actor's life, the book is a collage based on real-life situations that offer touching insights into stars like Rita Hayworth, and into the practical magic that informs Langella's signature sensibility.
