Patricia Hampl
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I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
Patricia Hampl
One of our most elegant and thoughtful memoirists reflects on memory and imagination. Memoir, that landscape bordered by memory and imagination, has become the signature genre of our age. In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl moves back and forth between a series of story-like recollections and essays in which she considers how she has been “enchanted or bedeviled” by autobiographical writing —her own and that of others. Subjects engaging Hampl’s attention are her family’s response to her personal writing; a secret that an old Czech migr tries to confide in…
