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Boom! : manufacturing memoir for the popular market /

Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed, vilified, and dismissed in the popular press...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rak, Julie, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
Colección:Life writing series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: Identifying the Memoir Industry -- CHAPTER 1 "More Books!": Publishing, Non-fiction, and the Memoir Boom -- CHAPTER 2 Bookstores, Genre, and Everyday Practices -- CHAPTER 3 Going Public: Selected Memoirs Produced by Random House and HarperCollins -- CHAPTER 4 Exceptionally Public: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood and James Frey's A Million Little Pieces -- CONCLUSION Citizen Selves and the State of the Memoir Boom. 
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