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This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff

This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff ebook
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780802136688
Format: pdf
Page: 304

I have learned a lot and am still learning, but my touchstone philosophy on writing about my life comes from Tobias Wolff's author's note from This Boy's Life: A Memoir:. So I finally pulled This Boy's Life off the shelf. This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff. Wolff wasn't the first to write memoir in this way, but This Boy's Life remains a touchstone to me and many other writers. 8) Wolff is not only a fiction writer, but a pioneer in the field of memoir, applying techniques of storytelling to nonfiction. Yagoda talks about his audacious chronicle of the memoir, one that spans thousands of memoirs and hundreds of years—and manna for anyone obsessed by personal storytelling. This Boy's Life is really well considered. Tobias Wolff, the author of the wonderful memoir This Boy's Life, put the memoirist's task in this way, “Memory is funny. This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. One scene after another doing tremendous work in the narrative, with exquisitely selective detail. I was surprised at how good that novel was because Wolff (if he is known — and more people should read him) is better known for his short stories and this memoir. *Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, a scene driven memoir; as well as Geoffrey Wolff's Duke of Deception. Writing a memoir is all about making choices. I've included it because I wanted to call attention to some exceptional family centered memoirs such as Stitches, The Glass Castle, and This Boy's Life. Starting with: This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff (1989): Wolff's memoir is the first that I remember reading. €�I” on the page after years as a fact-obsessed journalist.