Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography

By Herbert Leibowitz

Book Overview

This book examines the problem posed by an art where craftiness is hand in glove with craft: after all, a memorist wants us to perceive him in a certain way; how do we penetrate his strategies and subterfuges?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394574281
• ISBN13: 9780394574288
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"