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Fabricating lives : explorations in American autobiography / Herbert Leibowitz.
LIBRA Special PS366.A88 L45 1991 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leibowitz, Herbert A.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 715.
- A New Directions paperbook ; 715
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Autobiography.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1991.
- Summary:
- This book examines the problem posed by an art where craftiness is hand in glove with craft: after all, a memorist wants us to perceive him in a certain way; how do we penetrate his strategies and subterfuges?
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-371) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0811211681
- 9780811211680
- OCLC:
- 22625011
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