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050 00 $aPS3563.A386$bZ478 1994
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100 1 $aMairs, Nancy,$d1943-2016.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77015920
245 10 $aVoice lessons :$bon becoming a (woman) writer /$cNancy Mairs.
260 $aBoston :$bBeacon Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9405
300 $ax, 166 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 162-166).
505 0 $aPrelude: Loving the Other -- Voice Lessons -- Body at Work -- Writing (Into) Life: Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing -- Essaying the Feminine: From Montaigne to Kristeva -- In Search of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens": Alice Walker -- Reading Houses, Writing Lives: The French Connection -- The Literature of Personal Disaster -- The Writer's Thin Skin and Faint Heart.
520 $aVoice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times). She has won acclaim for her autobiographical writing on themes from living with depression to renewing a marriage, from sex to religion. In Voice Lessons, Mairs's subjects are literary, but as always her approach is personal, revealing, and inspiring.
520 8 $aMairs first shares her sharply drawn story on how "finding a voice" as an essayist transformed her life when she was a graduate student, wife, and mother in her late thirties. In a tribute to the liberating power of literature and feminist ideas, she shows how the words of other writers made possible a new career, a new life in difficult times.
520 8 $aVoice Lessons goes on to explore other women's writing and to outline a singular kind of literary life. Always grounding her writing in personal experience, always making ideas concrete, Mairs gives us essays on writing and the body, the challenges of autobiography, the revelatory power of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker, the literature of personal disaster, and the art of dealing with rejection.
520 8 $aArticulate, witty, incisive, and inspirational, Voice Lessons is a book for writers and aspiring writers, and for everyone who loves women's writing.
600 10 $aMairs, Nancy,$d1943-2016.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77015920
650 0 $aWomen authors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xSex differences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117583
650 0 $aWomen and literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147430
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3563.A386$iZ478 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPS3563.A386$iZ478 1994