Sentence examples for sad memoir from inspiring English sources

Coming to the novel from Hemon's most recent book, the thoughtful and at times unbearably sad memoir The Book of My Lives, the reader is taken aback.

It is a serious book, masquerading as a manifesto but eventually turning into a desperately sad memoir, layered beneath the polemic, about the failure of Baldwin's marriage and his estrangement from his only child.

He's written a sweet, sad memoir of finding a kind of home in his love of football, then losing it again when he was 13 and his parents took him back to India.

Profile Books; £7.99This superbly written and sad memoir tells the story of a lawyer's fight against Israel's seizure of Palestinian land and how he seeks solace by walking in the wild countryside of the West Bank.The Three of Us: A Family Story.By Julia Blackburn.Pantheon; 313 pages; $26.

The story of Jesse Sapolu could have been a sad memoir, a cautionary tale for the toughest of men.

There have been books in which women say horrible things about lovers and husbands - think of Anna Kashfi's "Brando for Breakfast," Erica Jong's psychiatrist husband in "Fear of Flying," Claire Bloom's depiction of Philip Roth in "Leaving a Doll's House," and Amy Wallace's sad memoir (perhaps she wasn't angry enough) "Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda".

The Book of My Lives is a thoughtfully humorous and profoundly sad memoir-cum-collection of essays that explores Hemon's first life, growing up in the lively cultural atmosphere of Sarajevo before the onset of the war in Bosnia, and his second life as a sort of accidental exile in America, where he was effectively trapped in 1992 when the war broke out.

(In a review of the book in The New York Times this week, Dwight Garner called it a "loquacious, high-strung, daft and vaguely sad new memoir").

The great thing about high heels, he writes in "The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt," his loquacious, high-strung, daft and vaguely sad new memoir, is that in them "I looked not like a tree stump" but "like Baryshnikov".

We talked a little bit about Mr. Sheffield's first book, "Love Is a Mix Tape," a sad, sweet memoir of his first marriage, and early widowhood, set to a soundtrack of Otis Redding, Marshall Crenshaw and many more.

"I didn't want to write another sad, lost-girl memoir," she explained.