Memoir: An Introduction
"Deft, rigorous, and remarkably wide-ranging, Couser's volume is a superb example of accessible scholarship.  It will serve as an ideal introduction to memoir for students, a clarifying and stimulating text for scholars, and a splendidly engaging introduction to life writing and other narrative genres for the general reader." --Richard Freadman, author ofThreads of Life: Autobiography and the Will"I have been working in the field of life writing for over fifteen years and can honestly say I learned a great deal fromMemoir: An Introduction. It is extremely readable, impressive, and really quite fascinating, even to one who knows the debates well." --Margaretta Jolly, editor ofTheEncyclopedia of Life Writing"[A] useful, compact volume...Recommended." --Choice"This contribution to memoir scholarship incorporates and fuses much of [Couser's] previous scholarship.Memoiris a significant and timely intervention into current debates around truth and representation. Its conversational style makesMemoiran engaging and thoughtprovoking read." --Literature inNorth Queensland"G. Thomas Couser's book is a tremendous achievement, covering the contemporary American memoir in a rich and thorough way. Encompassing the many genres, surprising history, and ethical perils of the form, MEMOIR is sure to become one of those much thumbed-through books that sits in every writing teacher's office--and on every memoirist's desk." --Rachel Simon,New York Timesbestselling author ofRiding The Bus With My Sister"Couser intelligently and capaciously introduces memoir for the general reader." --Thomas Larson,American Book Review