The Resource Where the past begins : a writer's memoir, Amy Tan
Where the past begins : a writer's memoir, Amy Tan
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The item Where the past begins : a writer's memoir, Amy Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Where the past begins : a writer's memoir, Amy Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 357 pages
- Contents
-
- Prologue. The breaker of combs
- I. Imagination
- A leaky imagination
- Music as muse
- Souvenir from a dream
- Hidden genius
- Reorientation: Homer, Alaska
- II. Memory in emotion
- Genuine emotions
- The feeling of what it felt like when it happened
- A mere mortal at age twenty-five
- A mere mortal at age twenty-six
- How to change fate: step 1
- III. Retrieving the past
- The unfurling of leaves
- The auntie of the woman who lost her mind
- Unstoppable
- Time and distance: age twenty-four
- Time and distance: age fifty
- Time and distance: age sixty
- IV. Unknown endings
- The darkest moment of my life
- Nipping dog
- The father I did not know
- Reliable witness
- V. Reading and writing
- I am the author of this novel
- How I learned to read
- Splayed poem: the road
- Eidolons
- Letters to the editor
- Letters in English
- Why write?
- VI. Language
- Language: a love story
- Intestinal fortitude
- Principles of linguistics
- Companions in the house
- Isbn
- 9780062319296
- Label
- Where the past begins : a writer's memoir
- Title
- Where the past begins
- Title remainder
- a writer's memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Amy Tan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tan, Amy
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.54
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Tan, Amy
- Novelists, American
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
- Label
- Where the past begins : a writer's memoir, Amy Tan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Contents
- Prologue. The breaker of combs -- I. Imagination -- A leaky imagination -- Music as muse -- Souvenir from a dream -- Hidden genius -- Reorientation: Homer, Alaska -- II. Memory in emotion -- Genuine emotions -- The feeling of what it felt like when it happened -- A mere mortal at age twenty-five -- A mere mortal at age twenty-six -- How to change fate: step 1 -- III. Retrieving the past -- The unfurling of leaves -- The auntie of the woman who lost her mind -- Unstoppable -- Time and distance: age twenty-four -- Time and distance: age fifty -- Time and distance: age sixty -- IV. Unknown endings -- The darkest moment of my life -- Nipping dog -- The father I did not know -- Reliable witness -- V. Reading and writing -- I am the author of this novel -- How I learned to read -- Splayed poem: the road -- Eidolons -- Letters to the editor -- Letters in English -- Why write? -- VI. Language -- Language: a love story -- Intestinal fortitude -- Principles of linguistics -- Companions in the house
- Control code
- ocn970381348
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062319296
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Where the past begins : a writer's memoir, Amy Tan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Contents
- Prologue. The breaker of combs -- I. Imagination -- A leaky imagination -- Music as muse -- Souvenir from a dream -- Hidden genius -- Reorientation: Homer, Alaska -- II. Memory in emotion -- Genuine emotions -- The feeling of what it felt like when it happened -- A mere mortal at age twenty-five -- A mere mortal at age twenty-six -- How to change fate: step 1 -- III. Retrieving the past -- The unfurling of leaves -- The auntie of the woman who lost her mind -- Unstoppable -- Time and distance: age twenty-four -- Time and distance: age fifty -- Time and distance: age sixty -- IV. Unknown endings -- The darkest moment of my life -- Nipping dog -- The father I did not know -- Reliable witness -- V. Reading and writing -- I am the author of this novel -- How I learned to read -- Splayed poem: the road -- Eidolons -- Letters to the editor -- Letters in English -- Why write? -- VI. Language -- Language: a love story -- Intestinal fortitude -- Principles of linguistics -- Companions in the house
- Control code
- ocn970381348
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062319296
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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