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The Sanctuary of Illness
“…a series of jazz-master riffs on illness.” — TriQuarterly Review “…graceful and engaging…” — Rain Taxi We all know someone who has suffered a heart attack. But, how often do we learn the intimate, potentially life-saving details that accompany coronary disease? In The Sanctuary of Illness, Thomas Larson (The Memoir and the Memoirist; The Saddest Music Ever Written) gives a powerful and personal inside tour of what happens when our arteries fail. He chronicles the three heart attacks in five years that he survived, and the emergency surgeries that saved his life each time. Slowly waking up to the genetic legacy and dangerous diet that pushed him to the brink, he reveals a path to healing that he and his partner, Suzanna, discovered together. Told with urgency and sensitivity, The Sanctuary of Illness is a subtle reminder that heart disease seldom affects just one heart.
The Memoir and the Memoirist
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true. In The Memoir and the Memoirist, critic and memoirist Thomas Larson explores the craft and purpose of writing this new form. Larson guides the reader from the autobiography and the personal essay to the memoir--a genre focused on a particularly emotional relationship in the author's past, an intimate story concern...
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Rock Art Studies in the Americas
The twenty papers presented in this volume stem from the First AURA Congress held in Darwin in 1988, an effort on the part of the Australian Rock Art Research Association to assemble an internationally significant body of expertise in the field of prehistoric rock art. Extensively illustrated, contributors include: E B Parkman (Cupule Petroglyph occurrences in the American West); R Mark & E Newman (Cup-and-ring petroglyps in northern California); D W Ritter & E W Ritter (Line convention in rock art of North America );G Granzberg & J Steinbring (The line, tree, and circle in rock art and pictography); K M Nissen (Petroglyph research in the Western Great Basin of North America); D L Hamann (Hohokam rock art of Southern Arizona); E C Dorman (Prehistoric rock art of the San Rafael Swell); C W Meighan (Central American rock art); R E Connick & F Connick (A summer solstice petroglyph site); R Q Lewis et al (Colonial rock art in Bolivia); M Consens (Rock art sites of southeastern South America); M M Podesta (Approaches to Argentinean Puna rock art); R Q Lewis (Bolivian rock art)
Write Your Memoir in 10 Steps
This book will help readers turn life stories into a treasured memoir. With examples, work sheets, exercises and tips, readers will learn how to write an engaging printed book about their experiences.
