Sentence examples for powerful memoir from inspiring English sources

The writing of such a powerful memoir did not come without personal anguish.

"Blindsided" is a powerful memoir, tough in the way Cohen's old news bosses would have wanted it to be tough.

NEGA MEZLEKIA'S powerful memoir stands as a reminder of how media images of Africa can never substitute for African stories.

It is also a powerful memoir of a sometimes painful journey that "thoroughly unravelled" its author's life, turning a naive young artiste into a confusedly politicised adult.

Upon his return home to Turin, he wrote what many people consider the noblest and most powerful memoir of the Nazi death camps, "Survival in Auschwitz" (1947).

This powerful memoir is a remarkably perceptive exploration of identity – of blood, language, religion and land – by someone intensely aware of the forces shaping European history and politics.

The Holocaust has yielded powerful memoirs and documentaries; fictionalized Holocaust films are no more than a minor genre.

Powerful memoirs like "Citadel on the Mountain" open small portals through which we view old kings manque, raving, and anxious, striving sons.

He escaped from the Vilna ghetto in 1943 and wrote poems about his experiences as well as one of the most powerful memoirs from Lithuania, Fun Vilner geto (1946; "From the Vilna Ghetto").

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He himself was hit so hard, his son Andre Dubus III writes in "Townie," his powerful new memoir, that "in his left front pocket a quarter was bent in half".