Description
In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions. Mixing memoir with mendacity, Slater examines memories of her youth, when after being diagnosed with a strange illness she developed seizures and neurological disturbances-and the compulsion to lie. Openly questioning the reliability of memoir itself, Slater presents the mesmerizing story of a young woman who discovers not only what plagues her but also what cures her-the birth of her sensuality, her creativity as an artist, and storytelling as an act of healing.
Author: Lauren Slater
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/2001
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780142000069
ISBN10: 014200006X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Author: Lauren Slater
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/2001
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780142000069
ISBN10: 014200006X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
About the Author
A 1999 National Magazine Award nominee, Lauren Slater has a masters degree in psychology from Harvard University and a doctorate from Boston University. Her work was chosen for the Best American Essays/Most Notable Essays volumes of 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. Her previous book, Lying, was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2000. Slater lives with her family in Massachusetts.