The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Taking readers on a 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, and Marguerite Duras.

• | Author: Vivian Gornick
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• | Publication Date: October 11, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0374528586
• | ISBN-13: 9780374528584