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Author:

Tan, Amy, author.

Title:

Where the past begins : a writer's memoir / Amy Tan.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Eccoan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Tan, Amy.
Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Autobiographies.

Notes:

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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780062319296
0062319299

OCLC:

(OCoLC)970381348

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