Bibliograph

A story larger than my own, women writers look back on their lives and careers, edited by Janet Burroway

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A story larger than my own, women writers look back on their lives and careers, edited by Janet Burroway

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A story larger than my own

Oclc number

855858270

Responsibility statement

edited by Janet Burroway

Sub title

women writers look back on their lives and careers

Summary

"In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Maxine Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. The essays and poems featured in this collection illustrate that even writers who achieve critical and commercial success experience a familiar pattern of highs and lows over the course of their careers. Along with success comes the pressure to sustain it, as well as a constant search for subject matter, all too frequent crises of confidence, the challenges of a changing publishing scene, and the difficulty of combining writing with the ordinary stuff of life{u2014}family, marriage, jobs. The contributors, all now over the age of sixty, also confront the effects of aging, with its paradoxical duality of new limitations and newfound freedom. Taken together, these stories offer advice from experience to writers at all stages of their careers and serve as a collective memoir of a truly remarkable generation of women."--, Amazon

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