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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 who she has been "enchanted or bedeviled" by autobiographical writing--her own and others'.
Red sky in the morning -- Memory and imagination -- The Mayflower moment : reading Whitman during the Vietnam War -- What she couldn't tell -- Czeslaw Milosz and memory -- A book sealed with seven seals : Edith Stein -- The smile of accomplishment: Sylvia Plath's ambition -- The invention of autobiography : Augustine's confessions -- Reviewing Anne Frank -- The need to say it -- Other people's secrets.
The Cushing Library/Basbanes copy contains 3 pieces of ephemera.