One Memory at a Time: Inspiration and Advice for Writing Your Family Story - Rilegato

Fulford, D. G.

 
9780385498708: One Memory at a Time: Inspiration and Advice for Writing Your Family Story
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ISBN 10: 0385498705 ISBN 13: 9780385498708
Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2000

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A companion volume to the best-selling To Our Children's Children offers practical advice on how to write family and personal histories, teaching the fundamental principles and techniques of memoir writing and providing a wide variety of illustrative essays, anecdotes, stories, and other writing samples. 20,000 first printing.

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D. G. Fulford is a former columnist to the Los Angeles Daily News and the New York Times News Service.  She is the coauthor with Bob Greene of To Our Children's Children and Notes on the Kitchen Table.

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companion to the best-selling To Our Children's Children, One Memory at a Time offers indispensable guidance and encouragement on writing family and personal histories.

Family history isn't hard. We do it every day without thinking about it. Our minds travel in that direction. Our minds are always going home. Family stories are our points of reference in every situation. They are involuntary responses, like sneezes. We see a hat worn by a man on an old movie channel and our minds jump to grandfather; his hat, his chair, his Scottie on his lap. We roll our cart by the butcher case at the grocery store and a passing glimpse at cubes of stew beef transports us momentarily to mother's kitchen, where she reaches for her blue-speckled roasting pan, the one with the lid.

When you give your stories, you are giving yourself. You are giving your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents to future generations. You are allowing the past and th

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Editore
Doubleday
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0385498705
ISBN 13 
9780385498708
Rilegatura
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
156
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ISBN 10:  078624870X ISBN 13:  9780786248704
Casa editrice: Thorndike Pr, 2002
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