Sentence examples for much memoir as from inspiring English sources

It is as much memoir as art.

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 book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were still discovering and exploring much of the rest of the world.

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.

(She doesn't think much of memoir as a genre: "I just don't know why everyone has to write about themselves").

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.

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.

Questions of food, pissing and sheer knee-trembling fatigue intrude on the itinerary with comic frequency, but the book is as much site-specific memoir as it is road movie.

Yet a recent profile in the Guardian notes that this most anti-bourgeois of thinkers has released a book called "In Praise of Love," which is apparently as much a personal memoir as it is a philosophical meditation on what many see as a particularly bourgeois virtue.