Sentence examples for us a memoir from inspiring English sources
"Anger is a wasted emotion," says the narrator of "The Dew Breaker," her most recent novel; in telling her family's story, she follows this dictum almost to a fault, giving us a memoir whose cleareyed prose and unflinching adherence to the facts conceal an astringent undercurrent of melancholy, a mixture of homesickness and homelessness.
Over the last decade Julia Blackburn has written some mesmerisingly original books (as Kate Mosse said on Radio 4, if she were Scandinavian she'd have won the Nobel by now), but the best, her greatest achievement, is The Three of Us, a memoir of her poet father and painter mother and the extraordinary muddle they made of their own lives and thus Julia's too.
We never ultimately know her motives, even when she tells us in a memoir what she thinks they were.
What Cory gives us in Dying: A Memoir is a vocabulary and an invitation to speak about the most difficult thing any of us will face.
For the rest of us, Lynne Tinley wrote a memoir of the family's life in Gorongosa and of the life of the park, a book called "Drawn from the Plains," which distills the essence of her husband's findings, with the artful and honest immediacy of the best nature writing.
A memoir should tell us less, and show us more.
Carr responded that every US secretary of state has written a memoir.
Who are the only three US presidents since 1924 not to have written a memoir of their years in power?
A memoir within a memoir.
