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But enough about me : why we read other people's lives
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But enough about me : why we read other people's lives

Author: Nancy K Miller
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Series: Gender and culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Nancy Miller explores the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. She also mounts a defence of the memoir against accusations of terminal narcissism by  Read more...

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Named Person: Nancy K Miller; Nancy K Miller
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nancy K Miller
ISBN: 0231125224 9780231125222 0231125232 9780231125239
OCLC Number: 49028835
Description: xviii, p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: But Enough About Me, What Do You Think of My Memoir? --
Decades --
Circa 1959 --
The Marks of Time --
"Why Am I Not That Woman?" --
Epilogue: My Grandfather's Cigarette Case, or What I Learned in Memphis.
Series Title: Gender and culture.
Responsibility: Nancy K. Miller.

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Miller's book seems more than its sum, larger than its slim weight in the hand... fascinating... poignant... looms large. -- Cora Kaplan Women's Review of Books A witty defense of the genre. Read more...

 
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