- Hardcover: 182 pages
- Publisher: Little Brown & Company (August 1978)
- ISBN-10: 0316374695
- ISBN-13: 978-0316374699
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,300,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
In this extraordinary autobiography--now a classic of the genre--one of the literary community's most distinguished voices brings all of her novelistic powers to the facts of her own life. This newly released edition features a new Introduction by Maureen Howard in which she discusses the current fascination with memoir and autobiographical writing. In her own startlingly original contribution to the genre, she evokes the wonder of common things and the strangeness lurking in the seemingly obvious with great charm, wit, and energy. A searching and powerful memoir, Facts of Life "reveals Maureen Howard as one of our most significant writers" (The Boston Globe).
--With a new Introduction by the author
"A brilliantly told story." --Alfred Kazin, The New Republic
"Brief, witty, and utterly original." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
--With a new Introduction by the author
"A brilliantly told story." --Alfred Kazin, The New Republic
"Brief, witty, and utterly original." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Reads Like Good Fiction, Mar 2 2012
By G. Charles Steiner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Facts Of Life (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this very moving, very stirring, tasteful work in 1991. Nostalgic writing in the first two sections called Culture and Money: the grand, simple scale of life in the early Twentieth Century, 1910, etcetera. Hard to believe this is an autobiography. It reads like good fiction. Two words I had to look up in the dictionary while reading this work were: "de trop" - excessive, superfluous; "louche" - ambiguous and fishy.
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