{"product_id":"the-situation-and-the-story-the-art-of-personal-narrative-9780374167332","title":"The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003eA guide to the art of personal writing  by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love  All 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.  How does one pull from ones own boring  agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story 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.  This 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\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651934085173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374167338","price":42.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374167332.jpg?v=1781846014","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-situation-and-the-story-the-art-of-personal-narrative-9780374167332","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}