Boom!: Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market

by Julie Rak

Book Overview

Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed, vilified, and dismissed in the popular press. But is there really a boom in memoir production in the United States? If so, what is causing it? Are memoirs all written by narcissistic hacks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554589398
• ISBN13: 9781554589395
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"