Sentence examples for quality of memoir from inspiring English sources

Babel's childhood stories have the quality of memoir, but are largely invented.

Sandra M. Gilbert, Nuala O'Faolain, Malachy McCourt and Marilyn French, among others, have attested to the superb quality of the memoir's prose and to its ringing honesty.

As it happens, Hugo Hamilton has written several books -- literary novels as well as a couple of crime thrillers -- and the rare quality of this memoir owes much to his novelistic skills, not least his handling of the child's point of view throughout, with its luminously uncomprehending attentiveness to adult behavior.

A brief outline of the history of memoir and autobiography.

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr.

The result is a blend of memoir and fiction.

Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir.

The evidence of nearly every great military memoir argues the opposite -- the quality of the writing validates the subject.

The fact that the memoir ends shortly before Sept. 11, 2001, gives it the innocent quality of a letter from that other world, the one we remember.

This is the Dirty Harry model of recovery, and the cinematic quality of some of Frey's exploits makes you wonder whether the facts in this memoir have been enhanced.

Nixon, in his 1978 memoir, stated that the central issue in the 1946 campaign was "the quality of life in postwar America", and he won because voters "had 'had enough,' and they decided to do something about it".