My Misspent Youth: Essays
Now back in print, author of The Unspeakable Meghan Daum's acclaimed cult classic that revitalized the personal essay for a new generation of writersMeghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers working today, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she...
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Now back in print, author of The Unspeakable Meghan Daum's acclaimed cult classic that revitalized the personal essay for a new generation of writersMeghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers working today, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well-remembered N
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781250067654 (1250067650)
ASIN: 1250067650
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Biography Memoir,
Womens
These essays' strengths are the author's skill in the writing craft - structure both in the macro (narrative) and micro (sentence) level. Damn can she pull an essay together. It's always nice to read someone who knows how to handle an ending. These essays' weaknesses are in the author's seeming inab...
2.5 star ratingI really liked the beginning of this book. The essays were really well put together and she made her point without taking out her nerf bat and beating the reader over the head with it, like she did in some of the essays towards the back, which I didn't particularly care for and why i...
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