I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory Summary and Reviews

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
by Patricia Hampl

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
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Author: Patricia Hampl
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-08
ISBN: 0393320316
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Book Review: An original, provocative discussion of memory and memoir.
Summary: 5 Stars

Patricia Hampl has written a thoughtful, original study of memoir, both reflections on her own life and on the works of other notable memoirists over almost two thousand years--notably Czeslaw Milosz, Saint Augustine, Anne Frank, Edith Stein (a convert from Judaism to Catholicism, who became a martyr under the Nazis), Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman. In this era of tell-all memoir as melodrama, Hampl has restored the form to something provocative and serious, at the same time writing a highly readable series of linked essays in which she probes issues of morality and truth and the historical importance of the recorded life. The prose, reflecting Hampl the poet, sings as she meditates.

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