Voice Lessons: On Becoming A (Woman Writer)
Essays discuss the transforming power of literature, the challenges of biography, and the writings of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker
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Mairs' sharp, revealing essays are concerned with the process of women becoming writers. Her first essay describes how her experience of "finding her voice" as an essayist transformed her life when she was a graduate student, wife, and mother in her late 30s. In a tribute to the liberating power of literature and feminist ideas, she explores other women's writing, showing how their work helped ground her own love of literature and writing; other essay subjects include writing and the body, the challenges of autobiography, the "literature of personal disaster," and the art of dealing with rejection. Not indexed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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