I Could Tell You Stories
Sojourns in the Land of Memory
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Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7451622M
- ISBN-139780393047387
- ISBN-100393047385
- OCLC Control Number40397202
- OCLC Control Numbericouldtellyousto00hamp_0
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98051839
- Goodreads1782974
- LibraryThing469295
Classifications
- LCCCT21 .H33 1999
Description
Memoir, that landscape bordered by memory and imagination, has become the signature genre of our age. In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl moves back and forth between a series of story-like recollections and essays in which she considers how she has been "enchanted or bedeviled" by autobiographical writing - her own and others'.
First Sentence
Years ago, in another life, I woke to look out the smeared window of a Greyhound bus I had been riding all night, and in the still-dark morning of a small Missouri river town where the driver had made a scheduled stop at a grimy diner, I saw below me a stout middle-aged woman in a flowered housedress turn and kiss full on the mouth a godlike young man with golden curls.
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- I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
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