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I Could Tell You Stories Paperback - 2000

by Patricia Hampl

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In this "searching, reverent, humorous, (and) intent on knowing" ("Women's Review of Books") collection of personal stories, Hampl touches on such subjects as her family's response to her writing, the ethics of writing about family and friends, and an early experience reviewing Sylvia Plath. "Rich and idiosyncratic prose".--"New York Times Book Review".

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In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, "weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or bedeviled her. Subjects engaging Hampl's attention include her family's response to her writing, the ethics of writing about family and friends, St. Augustine's Confessions, reflections on reading Walt Whitman during the Vietnam War, and an early experience reviewing Sylvia Plath. The word that unites the impulse within all the pieces is "Remember!"--a command that can be startling. For to remember is to make a pledge: to the indelible experience of personal perception, and to history itself.

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Years ago, in another life, I woke to look out the smeared window of a Greyhound bus I had been riding all night, and in the still-dark morning of a small Missouri river town where the driver had made a scheduled stop at a grimy diner, I saw below me a stout middle-aged woman in a flowered housedress turn and kiss full on the mouth a godlike young man with golden curls.

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  • Title I Could Tell You Stories
  • Author Patricia Hampl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, NY USA
  • Publication date 2000-08-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393320312 / 0393320316
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Biography as a literary form, Autobiography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98051839
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • New York Times, 08/20/2000, Page 24
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