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Carregando... Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Pagede Lynn Freed
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I think a book more for someone actively interested in writing, however I still enjoyed the read. ( ) Found this at a library book sale. Freed is not a writer I'd known. An expatriate from South Africa with several novels to her credit, this collection of essays about her peripatetic life is quite entertaining, but only up to a point. Because the pieces were written over a period of twenty-plus years, some of them cover the same material and become redundant. Especially interesting is her account of how her first successful novel, HOME GROUND, was something of a scandal when she brought it to tour in Durban and other South Africa venues and a major newspaper gave it the headline, "Sex with the Servants." And, a veteran of teaching in various college Creative Writing programs, she quite bluntly admits that it's something of a racket, that good writing is not something that can be taught. There is much here too of her many travels and a permanent sense of displacement which she has come to terms with after over forty years of living in the U.S., noting that a certain distance is necessary to write good fiction. And her portraits of her parents - amateur theater types - are especially good, and at times very moving. READING, WRITING, AND LEAVING HOME: LIFE ON THE PAGE is a pretty good read, certainly worth the two bucks I paid for it. If you want a colorful, and very personal look inside the writing life, you might like this book. Highly recommended. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Equal parts revelation and inspiration, these eleven essays combine a memoir of an exotic life, reflections on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship between fiction and life. An account of translating a difficult mother into fiction, "Taming the Gorgon," becomes a poignant and hilarious meditation on the intricate knot binding mothers and daughters. The story of a scandal created by publication, "Sex with the Servants," becomes an inquiry into the porous boundary between private truth and public betrayal. Whether examining the difference between a story told and a story written, or describing the trials and rigors of teaching writing to pay the rent, Freed surprises, instructs, and entertains. Learned, opinionated, and wickedly funny, Freed tears off all fictional disguises and exposes the human being behind the artist. For writers, readers, or anyone engaged in literature, this is essential reading. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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