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Kirsty Grant wants to read: I am looking for good examples of memoir (not autobiography), that I can use for my dissertation.

Jul 14, 2015 04:23AM · 1 like · Like

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Age: 53

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About: Author of Loved Settled and Understood. English Student

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Memoirs of A Professional Cad
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George Sanders

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Jul 22, 2015 07:13AM · Like

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The Lover
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Marguerite Duras

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Feb 06, 2016 07:30PM · Like

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The Ravishing of Lol Stein
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Marguerite Duras

she said: " this memoir is broken into episodes like short stories and like all of Duras is brilliant and difficult to categorize. "

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Feb 06, 2016 07:32PM · Like

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 06, 2016 07:33PM · Like

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The Moon's a Balloon
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David Niven

she said: " What is fascinating about this memoir/autobio is that Niven's wrote like six of them and they all contradict each other. :) ...more "

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Feb 06, 2016 07:35PM · Like

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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Maxine Hong Kingston

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Feb 06, 2016 07:36PM · Like

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Abeng
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Michelle Cliff

she said: " wikipedia refers to this as "quasi-autobiographical" but I prefer to harken to the Audre Lorde word "Mythopoetic". A certain license taken when one is weaving the history of one woman into the narrative of a country (or the legacy of colonialism). ...more "