{"product_id":"situation-and-the-story-the-art-of-personal-narrative","title":"Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSituation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eVivian Gornick\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374528584\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e184\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of \u003ci\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Novel of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the \"I\" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question \u003ci\u003eThe Situation and the Story\u003c\/i\u003e asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid inteligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of ninfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative | Vivian Gornick | Paperback | 9780374528584 | Used: Very Good | Language \u0026 Writing 1674842","offer_id":50794266755330,"sku":"1674842","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61DUJLfVIvL.jpg?v=1792354291","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/situation-and-the-story-the-art-of-personal-narrative","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}