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• catalog abstract "The best writers tell true stories that fascinate not because they are true but because they are good stories. The people in them spring to life: James McConkey's stump-armed landlord in Court of Memory, Maxine Hong Kingston's hilarious aunt in The Woman Warrior, Geoffrey Wolff's scoundrel father in The Duke of Deception. Their events are vivid: Harry Crews, playing as a boy, falls into a vat of boiling water with a dead hog. Ralph Ellison visits a tenement to circulate a petition and finds four coal-shovelers discussing grand opera. Chris Offutt joins a circus as a walrus and watches a tattooed woman swallow a fluorescent light. Zora Neale Hurston, doing anthropological fieldwork, runs afoul of a knife-toting jealous woman in a Florida juke joint. Their worlds differ: Maureen Howard practices elocution; Frank Conroy practices yo-yo tricks. A young Navajo herder meets a woman on an Arizona hilltop; young Cynthia Ozick stockpiles issues of The Writer magazine in her closet in the Bronx. Sixteen-year-old Don Asher plays the piano for strippers called the Glamazons; statesman Henry Adams in his sixties plays with magnets on his desk.".
• catalog contributor b8522793.
• catalog contributor b8522794.
• catalog coverage "United States Biography.".
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "From A childhood / Harry Crews -- From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro -- From Wolf willow / Wallace Stegner -- From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon -- From Growing up / Russell Baker -- From Facts of life / Maureen Howard -- From The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner -- From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick -- From Confessions of a knife / Richard Selzer -- From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick -- From A son of the middle border / Hamlin Garland -- From Stop-time / Frank Conroy -- From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- From The earth is enough / Harry Middleton -- From Clear pictures / Reynolds Price -- From Black boy / Richard Wright -- From This boy's life / Tobias Wolff -- Shoot the piano player / Don Asher -- From Will's boy / Wright Morris -- From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- From This stubborn soil / William Owens -- From Going to the territory / Ralph Ellison -- From The duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolff -- From The same river twice / Chris Offutt -- From Left handed / Left Handed -- From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- From Court of memory / James McConkey -- Who won the West? / William Kittredge -- Replacing memory / Barry Lopez -- From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston -- From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead -- From Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman -- The star thrower / Loren Eiseley -- From The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog description "The best writers tell true stories that fascinate not because they are true but because they are good stories. The people in them spring to life: James McConkey's stump-armed landlord in Court of Memory, Maxine Hong Kingston's hilarious aunt in The Woman Warrior, Geoffrey Wolff's scoundrel father in The Duke of Deception. Their events are vivid: Harry Crews, playing as a boy, falls into a vat of boiling water with a dead hog. Ralph Ellison visits a tenement to circulate a petition and finds four coal-shovelers discussing grand opera. Chris Offutt joins a circus as a walrus and watches a tattooed woman swallow a fluorescent light. Zora Neale Hurston, doing anthropological fieldwork, runs afoul of a knife-toting jealous woman in a Florida juke joint.".
• catalog description "Their worlds differ: Maureen Howard practices elocution; Frank Conroy practices yo-yo tricks. A young Navajo herder meets a woman on an Arizona hilltop; young Cynthia Ozick stockpiles issues of The Writer magazine in her closet in the Bronx. Sixteen-year-old Don Asher plays the piano for strippers called the Glamazons; statesman Henry Adams in his sixties plays with magnets on his desk.".
• catalog extent "xii, 449 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Modern American memoirs.".
• catalog identifier "0060170409".
• catalog isFormatOf "Modern American memoirs.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers,".
• catalog relation "Modern American memoirs.".
• catalog spatial "United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "810.9/005 20".
• catalog subject "American prose literature 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
• catalog subject "Autobiographies.".
• catalog subject "PS129 .M63 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "From A childhood / Harry Crews -- From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro -- From Wolf willow / Wallace Stegner -- From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon -- From Growing up / Russell Baker -- From Facts of life / Maureen Howard -- From The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner -- From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick -- From Confessions of a knife / Richard Selzer -- From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick -- From A son of the middle border / Hamlin Garland -- From Stop-time / Frank Conroy -- From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- From The earth is enough / Harry Middleton -- From Clear pictures / Reynolds Price -- From Black boy / Richard Wright -- From This boy's life / Tobias Wolff -- Shoot the piano player / Don Asher -- From Will's boy / Wright Morris -- From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- From This stubborn soil / William Owens -- From Going to the territory / Ralph Ellison -- From The duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolff -- From The same river twice / Chris Offutt -- From Left handed / Left Handed -- From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- From Court of memory / James McConkey -- Who won the West? / William Kittredge -- Replacing memory / Barry Lopez -- From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston -- From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead -- From Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman -- The star thrower / Loren Eiseley -- From The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams.".
• catalog title "Modern American memoirs / selected and edited by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".