Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0061713716 ISBN 13: 9780061713712

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2008

Riassunto

Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time.

When Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half-dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way, too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving.

From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-size pieces.

The original edition of Not Quite What I Was Planning spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and thanks to massive media attention—from NPR to the The New Yorker—the six-word memoir concept spread to classrooms, dinner tables, churches, synagogues, and tens of thousands of blogs. This deluxe edition has been revised and expanded to include more than sixty never-before-seen memoirs.

From authors Elizabeth Gilbert, Richard Ford, and Joyce Carol Oates to celebrities Stephen Colbert, Mario Batali, and Joan Rivers to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.

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Recensione:

You could spend a lifetime brainstorming. (The New Yorker)

These tiny windows into people s lives are at once addictive and illuminating, challenging and accessible. (Blackbook)

The brilliance is in the brevity. (New York Post)

L'autore:

Launched in January 2006, SMITH is an award-winning online magazine that celebrates personal stories in their many shapes and forms.

SMITH founding editor Larry Smith has worked as an editor at Men s Journal, ESPN: The Magazine, and Yahoo! Internet Life, among others. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Men s Journal, ESPN: The Magazine, Slate, Salon, and many other places. Rachel Fershleiser is a senior editor at SMITH Magazine. Both Larry and Rachel live in New York City.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061713716
• ISBN 13: 9780061713712
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 243
• Redattore: Fershleiser Rachel, Smith Larry