Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
by:
Lauren Slater (author)
"[Slater has] the playful mind of a philosopher and the exquisite, unique voice of a poet." (The Washington Post Book World) In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe...
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"[Slater has] the playful mind of a philosopher and the exquisite, unique voice of a poet." (The Washington Post Book World) In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions. Mixing memoir with mendacity, Slater examines memories of her youth, when after being diagnosed with a strange illness she developed seizures and neurological disturbances-and the compulsion to lie. Openly questioning the reliability of memoir itself, Slater presents the mesmerizing story of a young woman who discovers not only what plagues her but also what cures her-the birth of her sensuality, her creativity as an artist, and storytelling as an act of healing.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142000069 (014200006X)
Publish date: October 1st 2001
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 221
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
Reference,
Read For School,
Health,
Biography Memoir,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
High School,
Research
This book was just ok. I stopped reading it for a few days and I had no interest in finishing it.
I read a chapter out of this book for my "Elements Of Memoir" writing class and I was so intrigued by it that I want to read the whole thing.And I'm certainly glad I did. This is a very smart and engaging read, in which I didn't care if she had epilepsy or münchausen's or nothing at all. The metaph...