Voice Lessons

On Becoming a (Woman) Writer

Author: Nancy Mairs
ISBN: 9780807060070

Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times). She has won acclaim for her autobiographical writing on themes from living with depression to renewing a marriage, from sex to religion. In Voice Lessons, Mairs's subjects are literary, but as always her approach is personal, revealing, and inspiring. Mairs first shares her sharply drawn story on how "finding a voice" as an essayist transformed her life when she was a graduate student, wife, and mother in her late thirties. In a tribute to the liberating power of literature and feminist ideas, she shows how the words of other writers made possible a new career, a new life in difficult times. Voice Lessons goes on to explore other women's writing and to outline a singular kind of literary life. Always grounding her writing in personal

Publisher: Beacon Press
Publish Date: 1997-01-01

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General, Literary Collections / Essays, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Women Authors

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Writing)