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Item specifics

Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
Brand
Unbranded
MPN
Does not apply
Original Language
English
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780061374050
Book Title
Not Quite What I Was Planning : Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Item Length
7.2in
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Year
2008
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7in
Author
Rachel Fershleiser, Larry Smith
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Non-Classifiable
Topic
Literary
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Product Information

Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity--six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving. From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-sized pieces. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061374059
ISBN-13
9780061374050
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61164491

Product Key Features

Book Title
Not Quite What I Was Planning : Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Author
Rachel Fershleiser, Larry Smith
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Non-Classifiable
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ct25
Reviews
"Perfect for the American attention span...Will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists." -- Vanity Fair "Irresistibly clever." -- Chicago Tribune "The brilliance is in the brevity." -- New York Post "You could spend a lifetime brainstorming." -- The New Yorker "In six words: Gimmicks should always be this fun." -- Style.com "Compulsive reading...as insightful as any 300+ page biography." -- Publishers Weekly "A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared." -- Denver Post "The pithiest of life stories." -- O magazine "A fabulously appealing exercise both for writers and for readers." -- Daily Telegraph (London) "Six-word review: Buy it, keep it in bathroom." -- Philadelphia Magazine "These tiny windows into people's lives are at once addictive and illuminating, challenging and accessible." -- Blackbook "Smith seems to have struck a chord in the current zeitgeist, unleashing a torrent of self-expression not unlike the one launched by Frank Warren when he began inviting people to write their secrets on the back of postcards." -- Toronto Star, Smith seems to have struck a chord in the current zeitgeist, unleashing a torrent of self-expression not unlike the one launched by Frank Warren when he began inviting people to write their secrets on the back of postcards., These tiny windows into people's lives are at once addictive and illuminating, challenging and accessible.
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-299771
Dewey Decimal
920.02
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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