Memoir: Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well
Both literary stars and newcomers refresh this popular genre for fall.
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Lynn Rosen
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I accede: truth is a fuzzy, slippery thing. We can see that by comparing Ann Patchett’s version of a friendship in Truth & Beauty: A Friendship to Lucy Grealy’s story in Autobiography of a Face, or by trying to line up Geoffrey Wolff’s memories of life with dad in The Duke of Deception to brother Toby’s of life with mom in This Boy's Life. But slippery as the truth may be, memoir, even at its best with storytelling cadences that resemble fiction, is a unique art form that sits within the crosshairs of history and biography, and somewhere in the vicinity of truth; it is perhaps best defined as personal truth.
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